In eight pages this paper examines the knowledge that comes from suffering and the shortsightedness that can result. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.
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as people move from one psychological plane to another without cause to stop and consider how and why they are even here and what might be expected of them on
a grander, more esoteric scale. Inherent to mans self-seeking journey is that which becomes distorted, a quest for knowledge that no longer reflects the truth but rather exemplifies how
people latch on to what it is they mistakenly think they know. The ultimate consequence of such shortsightedness results in tremendous suffering that humanity has no idea how to
abate, much less liberate altogether. Suffering can be overcome, by destroying the causes of suffering within us. This is the Path of Purification, the Spiritual Path to Enlightenment.
As we destroy our own frustrations, jealousies, hatreds, lusts, greeds, self-pity, pride, laziness, and so on, we come to experience the true opposite of suffering - Bliss, Divine Joy.
Throughout the Path we come to understand in depth the causes of others suffering, things which the majority of the world are unaware of, and all because we are
gradually putting our own sufferings to death" (Dave, 2002). II. TRUTH VERSUS UNTRUTH When Locke (1986) comments upon the concept of balance,
he notes that knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas. To the philosopher, knowledge seemed to be nothing short of the perception of the
connection of an agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of ones ideas. He indicated that where this perception exists, there is knowledge; however, "though we may fancy, guess,
or believe, yet we always come short of knowledge. For when we know that white is not black, what do we else but perceive, that these two ideas do