Dilemma

In response to Istvan Kovacs' analysis pertaining to the human intellect:

Reason is the tool of choice for the doubting mind.

The intellect is built up through the process of dialogue, question and answer give rise to subsequent inquiry and cogitation.

The slow process of epistemilogic accretion/education never produces a static solution.

The process is essentially “de-/ re-constructive”.

As such, we “know” very little, even when we have “studied and learned”.

The stupid among us are not so stupid as we.

Their stupidity is at least an honest reflection of their situation.

Whereas,“well-developed” ideas and theories leave us burdened, embittered and cynical, somewhat the wiser.

The task for us, “the suffering in mind”, is to avoid the sour fruit of fermented ideas and to gain the value of our inquiries while avoiding the hangover of alienation and misanthropy.

Unfortunately, the intellect is poorly equipped for dispensation of compassion.

To the degree we rely on mind, we deviate from the wisdom of heart.

Knowledge is wasted unless we can find a proper practice.

The practice rests on a sympathetic transmission.