The nature of reality is such that no matter how much you say about it, you will be no closer to the end than when you began.

Which is why the wise sit in silence.

Explicit versus implicit understanding.

The point of this episode is to give you a deeper understanding of understanding.

What is understanding?

Have you ever wondered about that?

How does understanding work? It's a very mysterious thing.

Understanding is not the same thing as knowledge.

You can know, for example, that the Eiffel Tower is located in France.

You can know that as a fact.

That's well and good.

Could be true, could be false.

You could of course have a false belief, false knowledge.

But that's not the same thing as understanding,

to understand something.

For example, when you understand how

the engine in your car works. That's a different thing than just factual knowledge.

There's understanding there when you understand how your computer works or something like that.

Understanding is actually one of these things that we take totally for granted, yet we're

using it all the time throughout life. It's actually a very mysterious thing and it's hard to put your

finger on what exactly understanding is because it's so vague and amorphous and

yet it's so central to how we live life it's so important and that's exactly

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