On wisdom

After I came back from my first day in school (when I was 5 years old) my father pointed to the Four Big Chinese Character-words written by a famous calligrapher who my father highly respected, and the four characters were “Da Zhi Ruo Yu” … it means “Wisdom is Ignorance”. I had always wanted to go to school to know what those four big characters meant. Alas, after he explained them to me, I was just as ignorant as I had been … I did not understand what he said. Now, after more than a half century, I begin to see what he said to me. During the past half century I often wondered … how could a person be smart and stupid? Now, I just begin to see the point … now I reach to this point and say, even if I’m not wise, I do know I’m ignorant ….