Tao 25
When you cling to the knowledge that seem "there" and obvious - you don't see how you catch a fish only because of the holes in the net.
What a man learns in the first part of his life, he must unlearn in the second.
Thus, he arrives not at a point of ignorance or unknowing but of knowing what ignorance and knowledge isn’t. All things to be seen, must be undressed.
The middle way is hard to see, we prefer one side or the other.
“Many a good thinker have been ruined from having an original thought because of a good memory.” F. Nietzsche. On The Genealogy of Morality.
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