Meditation and Thinking and DISEASES

Thinking, what makes you smart, kills you.

Reading and experiences in life are the sources of knowledge, Locke. Thinking is a disease, supported by Dostoyevsky and Confucius.

Unlike Aristotle, Yang Ming and Descartes who believe that most or all knowledge can be gained through thinking and meditation, Locke and Francis Bacon believe that observation and experiments are more important than thinking when it comes to getting knowledge. This is a direct challenge to Rationalism, called Empiricism.

If you don’t learn from experience and books, how would you know English? Your understanding of the English language allowed you to garner knowledge. You experience the usage of the language from the day you are born, with friends, family, teachers, and more.

Without experience, how can knowledge even form?

If we seldom go out and experience life, interact with different people, it’s easy to think in a very deviated manner, planting dangerous sentiments like ressentiment proposed by Nietzsche.

For example, if you want to get a higher wage, but you can’t. You chose to think on your own without talking to other people, it’s very easy to allow hatred to build and blame everyone but yourself for your own misery.