Doing Learning the Right Way

Learning

What we actually think of as learning is acquiring knowledge as per the field we are working in and getting the desired results. Since our school to college, university, etc., we have acquired knowledge and mastered something we have said to do. Is it a way of learning?

In our daily lives, each one gathers information and knowledge from various sources and acts accordingly, but what I am talking about is learning from a different perspective.

Learning is not just acquiring knowledge and acting all the time. In other words, it is not occupied with some information and doing something with that. Also, not storing up any information and repeatedly using it cannot be learning.

If somebody wants to know the actual learning, then he or she needs to go beyond the field of knowledge; he or she would have to be free from all knowledge and actions based on that knowledge.

In learning, whatever we learn throughout our lives and what we do on the basis of experiences, information, learning from daily activities, events, incidents, etc. If we really want to know what we are learning, then we need to raise a question about it. What is learning?

The repetition of our experiences, our acquiring of data, information, and actions from our own learning, is all past. Can’t we see that we are living in the past this way?

There are two ways of learning: one is by accumulating information and taking actions based on that information, which is also important for our survival and livelihood. We can’t deny this fact.

Another way to learn is to free or put aside knowledge, information, and experiences. In other words, we may say that without anything in mind, feel free to observe, listen, and grasp whatever there is.

To understand the concept of learning, you just need to know that learning is not reading something and keeping it in mind and doing it repeatedly daily. It is a totally different way to understand what learning is when our ideas and actions become the same and the time interval between them becomes non-existent. We may say our action and idea become one.

In simple words, there is a way of acting and there is a way of learning in which there is no time interval; therefore, learning is acting. Definitely not acting on the previous knowledge, but learning from what is there to observe and understand through that.

This way, learning seems to be new every time, and there is nothing to be obsolete. If we come to this way of learning, then nothing seems to be boring, whatever we do in daily life; everything seems to be new as we are doing it for the first time. We can also feel not to be bored and always find something new to try.

If we could understand the way of learning, then each day will have new things to try and achieve more.