The True Way of Knowledge

Or, How to be a corporate ninja part III

Even today in a world where presenters have started to add wisdom to the top of their KM triangles (even though they have not yet structured their IM) knowledge continues to be treated as a treasure to be buried only to be found by following the map marked with an 'X'.

But this is only a way of becoming stale, stagnant and rotten. You will find that you will walk the same path again and again and where once there was lush forest, animals of varifold colour and wonder, now it has become a motorway surrounded on all sides by ghettoes or glistening and untouchable skyscrapers, where traffic means it is impossible to move and hours are spent listening to inane radio shows, where you have to leave the house an hour early in order to get anywhere on time.

This is not the way of the ninja.

Knowledge is by its nature that which become other than itself in time. It is difference in kind not degree. Knowledge is not atemporal and the ninja must learn the pleasures of time.

Knowledge expands when it is shared in the same way that time itself changes in kind when it is divided. The reasons are twofold. And interior and an exterior fold.

1. The interior fold is that game which one plays with oneself. That is to say that in sharing one must then move on and learn / create new knowlede in order to have more to share. It is like playing a game of chess with oneself - each time having to ouwit oneself.

2. The exterior fold is that when a thing is shared it becomes different in its application. Watching this difference will provide further lessons, that is furnish you with further knowledge.

You will have noted that the two folds overlap and this is because even notions we take for granted such as interior / exterior are false and function only as models of utility. All concepts are grey. Such is the play. Such is the way of the ninja.