15.8.08

Ignorance due to incomplete knowledge

With ignorance, fear sets in, primarily, due to a "lack of knowledge or wisdom". When this happens, we will feel restlessness and soon, fear will set in, because there is ignorance due to incomplete knowledge acquired.

I am victim of ignorance as well. I am fearful of visiting dentists and the day before I am supposed to visit one, I will be very restless and fear sets in, and the day will be nearly unbearable for me, as if knowing the next day, the death penalty will be yielded on me. This is due to ignorance too as I anticipate pain and my body reacts to this poor thought.

Maria Duval adds that personal ignorance due to half-baked knowledge is potentially dangerous, as this form of incompleteness happens at early childhood stage, when parents will anxiously educate their kids to the perils and pitfalls of this cruel world. Most of the time, parents do not inculcate their kids will complete picture.

Parents often tell children the bitterness of their life experienec and they do not want them to go the such ignominy when they grow up. Is this truth? Parents don’t know that they are only painting a part of the picture. They are breeding ignorance by imparting half knowledge.

So Maria Duval suggests to us to impart complete picture to youngsters that we "die only once in life and the courageous die only once".

This is the truth.

Once they are aware of this fact, they will cherish life even more and they will do their best to understand so as not to "die" again and again. If you do not impart to them this very important understanding to your children, then you are giving them partial knowledge.

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