"On the path of practice, knowledge is an obstacle that must be overcome.
We must be ready to abandon our knowledge at any moment in order
to get to a higher level of understanding."
Thich Nhat Hanh
We may consider the perspective of water and ice.
A living encounter is water, continually flowing, always ready to take new shape.
Knowledge is ice: hardened, fixed.
Being mindful means the ice of our knowledge to melt into the living water of a
personal encounter with another human being.
It is only in such an encounter that true healing takes place.
Thomas Bien
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