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From: koan	1/6/2007 3:50:45 PM
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"The path to wisdom is steep and narrow and dangerous as the razors edge". Sommerset Maughm. My carelessness last night caused me to lose my footing on that steep path and I paid a psychological price for it. Maughm and many of our great thinkers talk about the difficulties they encounter in trying to learn and discuss topics regarding wisdom. They run up against prejudices, dogmas, and hostility at every turn. Look what they did to Salmon Rushdie (as wise a man as I have ever listened too!). The leader of Iran put out a death sentence on him. Look at what happened to the Danes for a few jokes. Mark twain would not allow his book "letters in the wind"? to be published until after his death. Gerald Ford would not allow his critisizms of the present war to be published until after his death. And Einstein became so disheartened in old age he refused heart surgery which would have extended his life. Nobel literature winner, writer Thommas Mann, wrote an outobiogaphy called "Tonio Kroger" whereby the intellectually curious man ends up a janitor and the football star ends up the town mayor and married to the head cheer leader and was loved by the whole town. Mann saw himself as tonio. At the end of the book tonio is a janitor hiding behind the curtins at the Mayors big party. Herman Hesse, the most read writer by the counter culture (and a protege of Thomas Manns who also won the nobel prize for literature with Magister Ludi) harped on the trappings of shallow living; and agonized about the delima of liking the many creature comforts, but trying to reconcile it with his search for wisdom. The buddhists employ hardships and puzzles on their path to wisdom e.g. Siddhartha. And I won't even mention people like Coprenicus and Gallilao and all the problems their contemporaries ran into-grin. The path to wisdom is indeed as dangerous as the razors edge.

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