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Mark Of


    Knowledge                             Dr Yamin Cheng
                                               A poem by



    A person of knowledge
    Asks only when he knows
    Not when he does
    not know                   A person of knowledge
    For how can one ask        Sees the many
    for a direction            things before him
    When he doesn’t            As a family of
    even know                  one another
    Where he wants to go       Where differences
                               have commonalities

    A person of knowledge      And oppositions
    Sees difficulty as easy    have agreements
    But not that easy
    is simplicity              A person of knowledge
    To think that easy         The more he
    is simplicity              seeks to know
    Is to make one’s           The less he thinks
    judgment a difficulty      he knows
                               He sees things as
                               what they are
                               And not his own ego


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