Lazy brain bird: and the art of uselessness

Was reading a scholar's take on the Gita recently and realized that scholars sometimes miss the point in all the clutter they bring into their scholarship. The Gita has a powerful yogic message. Like all messages which are special, it gets to be interpreted in many ways. The yoga path of Gita is very clear and pure. And on that, those of us in the state of mumukshutva have no doubt. Others, wishing to impress upon the world with their scholarship, I fear often miss the wood for the trees. But they do not have this craving and therefore their one desire, to impress, often suffocates the more subtle but equally intense mumukshutva. Often, when I read scholars writing on philosophy, it is very clear to me, that many have become egotistic and have completely missed the point. This is true, even of those who claim extreme feelings for a subject.. somehow, the ego appears to take over, even over the subject, as if they wish to dominate to the exclusion of everything, including the topic.

Here, there is this beautiful, tricky Tao idea about uselessness and usefulness.

Hu Tzu said to ChuangTzu --Tell me about the useless.

Once you understand the useless, that's when you're ready to start talking about the useful. For example, heaven and earth are expansive and huge everywhere, but any individual only takes enough to put his foot on.If however, you dug deep right around someone's feet reaching all the way to the Yellow Springs  would the spot still be useful?
No, it would be useless.
So, in this case, the useless greatly clarifies what it means to be useful.
(From the Chaung-Tzu,The Tao of Perfect Happiness.
Translation and Annotation, by Livia Kohn)

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