Chapter 50அதிகாரம் 50 கற்றல் Learning

She knew the yazh from books; when she touched the yazh, she knew she did not know it.

Where the river meets the sea, the river’s water finds its own taste changed, and knows the difference.

Those who say learning is theirs are the unlearned; the learned say they are within learning.

She touched the shore, began to learn, learned, and lost the shore in the middle of the book.

She set out from the shore she knew. Deep in the book, she is too far out to see it.

‘I know’ is a pond of standing water; ‘I do not know’, always, a running river.

On the day a single lamp is set down, the darkness standing in the corner comes to have a name.

When all is dark, nothing stands apart. Once a lamp is lit, the unlit corner shows as ‘the dark’ and can be named.

When he lets go of what has proved false, he lets go of the self that clings to it.

The well is there, and the water; if those who draw and give never walk to the thirsty, what virtue is theirs?

Learning is not putting a tool into the hand; it is forging the hand into a tool.

Whoever climbs a branch and stands on it has only the height of the branch. Standing on your own feet is height.