ARE RESULTS A MUST IN LEARNING?

ARE RESULTS A MUST IN LEARNING?

“What you refer to as a ‘mistake,’ an ’embarrassment’, a ‘regret’, or whichever name you give it, is an engine for growth and the light to see the self clearly; Perfection is a form of mental disorder, that plunges the mind to perpetual futility. Usually, we expect results of whatever we learn, so that we will feel we have reached. So if we hear a “sermon” or read, for example, on “Humility”, we practice hard to be humble and to reach the perfection of being humble. That result is what we are focused on. That form of learning is no learning at all. Humility should happen with the movement of learning; it can’t be practiced and attained. When you strive to reach the state of perfection in your actions, without mistakes, then there is no learning at all. As far as you live, there is no end to learning. As there is the movement of learning, there comes growth and bliss in your life. Perfection is a state, which one strives to attain and therefore accumulates knowledge from experiences, counsellors, preachers, mentors, books, and so on. That means the person is not learning at all from life. He is accumulating knowledge to reach an end or state (of perfection). Imagine you reach the end or state of perfection, what else? That would imply you expect to meet the same circumstances or situations you have accumulated knowledge about, daily, in order to keep floating in that state of perfection. That is quite impractical and impossible. Life has its own innumerable dynamics, and there must be the inevitable movement of learning. When one lives fully with the movement of learning, of which movement encounters mistakes, and of mistakes comes discovery, and of discovery keeps the being learning and growing and blissful.

Mr. Hko (Writer and Coach)