Pondering, Meditiation, Introspection and Knowledge

What does it really mean to be alive? "Cogito ergo sum" as Rene Descartes would say or in english, "I think therefore I am." The very fact that I know that I am here in the streets of mortality where my senses are gathering realities here in this earth it is only necessary that I should process it to something meaningful and that is where "pondering", "meditation" and "self-inspection" would come in.

What is knowledge? For me it is anything that passes through our senses. We "know" that something exists because our senses captures it. For example, we know what a table is because of the essence that makes a table a "table", that it has four legs, made of wood and other characteristics that makes a table a table. Such "essences" would pass through our senses and then our mind would process them and conclude or infer that the thing or reality that we perceive is really a table.

Sense experience is necessary for knowledge, ergo theories, paradigms and babblings would make no sense unless it is experienced, first hand. Only through our experience can we prove or disprove theories.

So where does meditiation, pondering or introspection would come in? You see the mind and the heart are also considered senses, these are the spiritual senses. While the physical are the sense of taste, smell, hear and sight. Meditation, pondering and introspection would be effective if both the spiritual and the physical senses are at work.

We are in search for knowledge. I'm sure everyone needs it, to answer life's greatest questions. It is my conclusion that we can only gain knowledge if we use our senses. Take care of those senses, the spiritual and the physical senses.