One ceases to learn the moment one argues with life

Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

The act of listening is the act of learning.One has to learn so much about life, for life is a movement in relationship. And that relationship is action. We have to learn—not accumulate knowledge from this movement that we call life and then live according to that knowledge, which is conformity. To conform is to adjust, to fit into a mould, to adjust oneself to the various impressions, demands, pressures of a particular society.

Life is meant to be lived, to be understood. One has to learn about life, and one ceases to learn the moment one argues with life, comes to life with the past, with one’s conditioning as knowledge. So there is a difference between acquiring knowledge and the act of learning. You must have knowledge; otherwise you will not know where you live, you will forget your name, and so on.

So at one level knowledge is imperative, but when that knowledge is used to understand life—which is a movement, which is a thing that is living, moving, dynamic, every moment changing—when you cannot move with life, then you are living in the past and trying to comprehend the extraordinary thing called life. And to understand life, you have to learn every minute about it and never come to it having learned.

The Collected Works vol XV, pp 13-14

Here is my reflection.

When we learn from the past, from past experiences, from past relationships, there is then a conformity to those relationships in everyone thing that comes afterwards. Learning is dynamic, moving, ongoing. Can you treat everyone as new, with fresh eyes, can you enter this movement called life by just looking, being impartial in what you see. Most of all, can you free yourself from this conformity by seeing it working within you?