1) The Purpose of Study

There live many people in the world. What do they live for? What is the purpose of their study? I am sorry to say that they don't study for self-perfection, but study only for the pursuit of knowledge as a means to expand their material wealth in their daily lives. The same may be said of power. Acquisition of wealth, they think, is a means to form their free sphere of economic foundation. (126-225)

You say, "I study to be a great man," but it doesn't mean you are a great man, even if you are a Ph.D. You cannot realize the idea you have studied for until you establish the subjecthood of the ideal subject position in a reciprocal relationship. Therefore, you give yourself to studies for your reciprocative object. That a farmer sows seeds is also for the reciprocal object to harvest in autumn. This is the goal of the phenomenal world, or actual world. (109-121)

What do you study for? The man who studies for the sake of studying is a failure. The man who makes money for the sake of money is a failure. The man who has power for the sake of power is also a failure. How beautiful do you imagine they might be if they substituted love as their purpose? Then even God would say, "Yes, this is the knowledge I need. This is the money I need, the power I need." Understand? Don't you understand what I mean? How about you? [Yes, we do.] (129-285)