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Oct 20, 2012

Knowledge-Guidelines

Guidelines?

What is it? Guidelines are instructions or steps that have to be followed in certain conditions, such as experimenting. Guidelines are very important for our life too, which we have to decide ourselves. Some people prefer to follow their own rules, which may be better than the normal ones. Sometimes, teachers prefer to judge people as per their guideline, that they think of. Let me tell you a story about guidelines.


An ancient Indian sage was teaching his disciples the art of archery. He put a wooden bird as the target and asked his disciples to aim at the eye of the wooden bird. The first disciple was asked to describe what he saw. He said “I see the trees, the branches, the leaves, the sky, the wooden bird and its eye.” The sage asked the disciple to wait. Then he asked the same question to the second disciple, and he replied “I only see the eye of the bird.” The sage said, “Very good. Now shoot!” The arrow went straight and hit the eye of the wooden bird. So, unless we focus, we can not achieve our goal. It is hard to focus and concentrate, but it is a skill that can be learned.


So, if we follow our guidelines, we can achieve our goals. If we follow our goals, our knowledge can also increase. Biggest part of increasing knowledge is in following the process correctly. Just like this image: