Passage 14

In English

Acquire Experiential Knowledge

The principle is the same in everyone. We should do self-inquiry to attain this knowledge. There are three kinds of knowledge: bookish knowledge, discriminative knowledge, and practical knowledge. Bookish knowledge is superficial. Discriminative knowledge enables us to know what is real and what is unreal. Practical knowledge is experiential knowledge. Practical knowledge starts with discriminative knowledge. A small amount of experiential knowledge is sufficient. As long as we are dependent on the external world, we cannot have experiential knowledge.