The Halls of Academia

The Halls of Academia

A Story by Dayran
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What is knowledge

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As kids we used to catch dragonflies … tie a small leaf with a thread to its tail … and watch it fly. It wasn't until much later … when dating girls … did I realize there might have been something wrong with that … particularly from the reactions of the girls … on hearing our childhood pastimes. Curiously it didn't discourage the girls … instead it created some view of the fact that as boys we sometimes played with the forces of nature.


In a teen approaching puberty … that's an important consideration … to show that he is well up to dealing with the plans of the creator … that we share a certain anonymous confidence that we are doing the right thing … and that everything will some day turn out all right. It had to … what was the purpose then of all these elaborate plans of creating the world … if its not to have some fun?


Its therefore quite a strange experience to find at an older age that we have grown slightly sensitized to the fragile nature of life … especially the notion that something we do … echoes in some way in eternity. Kids on the other hand continue to be entirely unmindful … and that becomes something a zealous adult views as total disregard … recklessness … and a weight of burden that is thereafter shouldered by the adult experience. Does that cause a divide with children we raise? Are we subliminally trying to save our children from the wages of sin … in a later life? Or do we think its all entirely useless trying to?


In the review of life … and determination of its purpose … it would be entirely important that we recognize the positive nature of its objectives … at every event … anything else may be a failure to complete. Thereafter when we bring it to communication … we are informing the subtler aspects of our emotions of our understanding. Hopefully we do it not as an assurance … to ward off fear. To convey an understanding is to inform our emotions that we understand its purpose … its not to show understanding at the apparent recklessness of its infantile nature.


This brings up the issue of the efficacy of the mind against the passions … illustrating very clearly … that when we create an emphasis on mind development … we are necessarily dismissing parts of the experience of the passions as suspect. The fact is we have not come to a full understanding of mind … for if we did we'll have no problem with the passions. Unless we lack the conviction of our understanding.


It appears to me that no matter how the individual is divided against himself … it is always possible to understand the cause of the division … and the purpose it attempts to fulfill. That task is taken up by the mind … with the passions drawing their realization of the issues subtly in the body. In the development of mankind … such an activity appears to have been going on … even before we came to be conscious of its activity.


Therefore when we first begin to learn and reason out issues … it is undertaken in some mix with the passions. And thereafter the two aspects cultivate a relationship with regards to knowledge and its source in the passions. However in bringing it to communication … the mind makes a commitment to it … whereas the passions create an indulgence of knowing … and bring it to an non-verbalized animation … in its social relations.


Our societies create a value of the thinking and communication ability of thought … particularly at work. Its the engine of any economic system in a country. Such thinking and thoughts are thereafter … organized into a form of knowledge such as management or marketing … and is thereafter shared with the work force. A chief characteristic of thoughtful communication is the engagement of its physical nature and life force to do so … it implies a responsibility and accountability … that society relies on as trust. It is the basis of the system.


Knowledge that passes through the halls of academia … may be viewed as based on common sense … but it is provided a treatment … institutionalized recognition … a period of study … the review of its peers and certificated. These are the instruments of social convention we subscribe to as the organization of knowledge … and is the basis of reliance in any nation's system. It serves the common purpose in society and contributes to social organization. And if its done well … it will bring a special regard for the passions from whence it came.





© 2014 Dayran


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Added on January 28, 2014
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Dayran
Dayran

Malacca, Malaysia



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' Akara Mudhala Ezhuththellaam Aadhi Bhagavan Mudhatre Ulaku ' Translation ..... All the World's literature, Is from the young mind of the Original Experiencer. .. more..

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