Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Trespass is something which is fundamental to the art of communication. You need to have it to speak to someone else.  If it is not there, you will not make any impact. It has to be obtained, and if you have it today, it does not mean you have it tomorrow.  It is a process. It is something you have to work upon to obtain and maintain. It has to be constantly maintained.

Without trespass you have no communication, you have only a lecture.

Communication implies understanding and there should be something reciprocal in the process. Communication is beyond information being transferred from one person to another. It is knowledge, and at the highest level, it is wisdom. In order for that to happen, it cannot be a process of somebody hammering something through your skull.

It is a process of you seeking and  someone else guiding. Ultimately wisdom is not something from without, it is from within. You can only seek it from within, but the person has to be without to guide you.

In the learning process, who are the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’?  Academicians do not acquire wisdom unfortunately. All that they have become is a walking library. Being a professor doesn’t make you any smarter. How many professors of finance are millionaires? Being academic unfortunately only teaches one to hoard. It gets in the way of acquiring more knowledge.

Because, you are then like the monkey with its hand in that jar of peanuts. It can’t release its hands. It can’t acquire anymore peanuts. The fact that it is trapped by the peanuts shows that it is blind. But when other monkeys come close to the peanuts, it becomes aggressive. It wants to protect the jar. It is afraid that they want the peanuts inside. How foolish is that? The same peanuts have enslaved the monkey, the monkey is enslaved because of that jar. It is triumphant and is holding up that jar as a sign of victory and is protecting it aggressively. That is greed. Greed for knowledge is not a thirst for knowledge. Greedy people acquire not because they are hungry. They acquire for the sake of acquisition.

You have to recognize that the only way to reach that person is to establish trespass and without establishing trespass you cannot communicate.

Trespass is something that has to be constantly maintained. It is a garden which requires pruning. If you overlook it once or twice, you have overgrown the garden. It then becomes a jungle.

Without clear pathways, there is no communication. Without trespass, there is no communication. Mandatory trespass is not something that automatically leads to voluntary trespass. In the guru-shishya (teacher-student)equivalent, the shishya not only gives the trespass, he maintains it. The onus is on him, not the guru.

It is because you live in the foolish illusion that you will live a hundred years, that you will not give your trust for trespass. If you think you will die tomorrow, who will you give your trust to?

 

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