"He who knows, does not speak. He who speak, does not know" - Lau Tzu?

My answer is SILENCE.

being the first to answer......


he who does not listen gets smacked upside the head

maybe it means nobody knows the truth in this world because all who do don't tell it and everyone who is speaking is telling lies. And maybe it's on a larger scale and means society is society because of a bunch of fools planing untrue rubbish ideas into people's minds and the truth isn't spoken by those who know because of fear of going against the crowd. And know I don't think the ppl who answer are unknowers because he would also be a unknowers if that were true bc he said it.

Perfect timing

And...what about he who writes? Lau Tzu was an opium freak!

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speak, does not know" - Lau Tzu?
Are all the people who answer this question "unknowers"?

~~~ Since Lao Tsu spoke these words, does that mean that he didn't know what he was talking about?

"The only way that we shall ever recapture the sort of knowledge Lao-Tsu referred to in his dictum, "Those who know, do not speak", is by subordinating the question "how shall we know?" to the more existentially vital question, "How shall we live?"
To ask this question is to insist that the primary purpose of human existence is not to devise ways of piling up ever greater heaps of knowledge, but to discover ways to 'live', from day to day, that integrate the whole of our nature by way of yielding nobility of conduct, honest fellowship, and joy. And to achieve these ends, a man need perhaps know very little in the conventional, intellectual sense of the word. But, what he does know, and may only be able to express by eloquent silence, by the grace of his most commonplace daily gestures, will approach more closely to whatever 'reality' is, than the more dogged and disciplined intellectual behavior."

To even speak, one must descend from the mountain of Enlightenment!
That there be 'speech', that there be 'thought', there must be the 'illusion' of duality!
Reality is One, to speak is to use dualistic lies to, perhaps, convey Truth!

"We calculate, but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first!" - Neitzsche

I like the maxim.Use it and think about the New World Order.

And what is that supposed to mean? You can go anywhere and run across many types of people. And a lot of them talk about a lot of things and the funny thing about that is that they do actually know what they are talking about. So, what do you mean by this? I know what Lau Tsu meant. And how does that relate to the present times? If you know something and say nothing whose fault is it? So, if you know something and don't say anything about it how is it going to be known for others to benefit from? Perhaps what he meant was that he who knows when not to speak and when to speak is a smart person.

What exactly is the question? I am a lover of Lao Tzu. He is referring to the truth, or enlightenment. If I am not mistaken...

Since I have yet to realize the truth within I can only speak as to what he and others say about it. They all say that, its unexplainable. So..He who knows does not speak, because the truth can not be communicated because language just isn't capable of expressing it. He who speaks, surely does not know because language is incapable of expressing the truth.

There are those who know the truth, and still try to point ppl towards it. Even Lao Tzu does it. So I think its in regard to the ppl who actually try to explain what it is. Most masters do nothing of the sort, they only share their experiences, and lessons of their journey, in hopes it can guide others to see what they have seen.

I guess Lau Tzu DOESNT KNOW THEN DOES HE!!

What a moron.

hmmmmmmmm

I don't know