Complete Knowledge
If you see light, you do still have to see the shadow to complete knowledge of the light.
If you enjoy a rich life and learn anything, you still have to know what you can learn while you are living a poor life.
All the knowledge a rich scholar has learnt is not yet complete, since what a poor man can learn is not included there.
So, the top and best scholar who wants to acquire complete knowledge would rather abandon his rich life to be poor; then he will be able to learn what a poor and low-order person understands.
So, it is not simple. A winner in a sport game is unconditionally praised to be perfect in the arena. But the truth is that he is not still complete and perfect, since he does not know what a loser understands. To be a foolish winner or to be a wise player is the matter of question. To be a wise player, you have to be a winner and at the same time to be a loser on purpose.
But most of rich scholars and winners do not try to get complete knowledge and perfect understanding of any subject or game. So, they will become useless someday, since they are simply imperfect and half-way.
If you think what a man who is poorer than you understand is meaningless compared with what you understand, you are still very foolish. The measure you apply is very primitive. The value system you understand is so immature. It is so, since a man can only become rich by chance not by completeness of his intellect. And even a rich scholar whose intellect is a product of a rich environment cannot comprehend all the aspects of what he has learnt, since it lacks what can be only understood in a poor environment.
So, those who are close to complete knowledge and perfect victory should look poor and humble like Christ Jesus.
The glory that Christ's teaching has prevailed in the world has been made perfect by His having experienced the worst defeat on the cross; indeed He knew both the sides of winning and losing fully. Yet, that defeat has been conquered and canceled by his one-level-higher victory of becoming perfect with perfect knowledge.
(That is why you have to listen to a poor man more than to Harvard professors to comprehend deeper truth of the world. That is also why you have to learn a life of a loser in any sport than of a winner in order to understand what the game is in the world.)
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Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.