One may know the world without going out of doors.
One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.
The further one goes, the less one knows.
Therefore the sage knows without going about,
Understands without seeing,
And accomplishes without any action. (Tao Te Ching, 47)
I have noticed, that most of the times, when I share something to someone (let's say in the act of imparting knowledge to a friend or what), I usually make my idea unintelligible or at the same time, unclear which is in fact contrary to my case who understands it pretty well. Such really preoccupied my mind to the point that it led me asking that how about maybe, I will just let that person borrow my mind, maybe for a moment, in order for him/her to understand what I am trying to say. Because really, inside my head lies a lots of ideas, but when I try to speak it out, it is worse than nothing.
This is perhaps what usually students encounter, especially in explaining in front of a class about a certain subject wherein, even though how understandable for the part of the "explain-er" it could be, it will still never be comprehended effectively by that of the listeners/class. I somehow contemplated why is that so. Well, yes maybe, it just needs more speech practice or what, but the point which I considered to be that of which I could really agree is that of having a complicated and sophisticated address of ideas and things. As how I would remember in my Sociology class wherein my teacher asked me to answer his question about the Malthusian Theory. Well, although I studied pretty well that I can really say that I was really able to absorb the topic, after delivering my answer, my teacher draw a dartboard (a target-board) and somehow managed to put a lot of dots around that of the board; from the inside to the outside. You know what, I didn't really know whether I should be happy (because I have a lot of points given) or not (because I have a discorded and inharmonious answer). When he finished it, he said that I was not able to gain a point, for I just busted out and destroyed my whole answer because of it's inappropriate complexity. Such complexity led him to assume that I didn't really know what is my answer; thus, I don't have any difference to those who didn't study. Maybe, perhaps because I have lots and lots of ideas that when I somehow tried to fused them in my speech, they didn't fit and eventually became unsuitable, making the whole thing ruined.
Well, it is somehow like that of the Tao Te Ching above, which, in a general sense, emphasized the notion of simplicity and austerity where one doesn't need to acquire more than what is the appropriate; No sophistication or complication is needed in order for an individual to be considered knowledgeable or somehow far more greater than the others. That there is no need to elaborately go out of the context, or as how it was said, the "door" in order to know the worldly means and matters. Nor even the windows, in order to see the Tao. This is for the Tao is always there; even though it happens not to be visible, but yes it is still there. And once you assumed that it is not there, leading you to seek for more, you will never live out the Tao, nor even an idea of it.
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