Tao Te Ching 71

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. The Master is her own physician. She has healed herself of all knowing. Thus she is truly whole.
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The door to learning is the realization that there is something to learn; that we need to learn. The door to learning everything is the realization that we have everything to learn.

The status of world affairs provides ample evidence of the sickness that arises from people in positions of power “presuming to know” what is best or right or moral. These people have taken their personal views and opinions and dressed them up as knowledge, like a fantasizing child playing grownup.

The suggestion that we can be truly whole only if we heal ourselves of all our knowing is compelling because it suggests that our knowledge is the source of our overwhelming compulsion to see the world in fragments. Our knowledge, so called, causes us to see everyone as separate from ourselves; it’s the basis of you and I; us and them; right and wrong; good and bad; and the myriad other fragmented (dualistic) views that reside in our heads and hearts.

Wholeness – health, well being and peace – will be found only when we heal the things that divide us. The Old Testament prophets teach us “How good and how pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity.”

May we be healed of our disease so that we may be whole and dwell together in unity.