240817 What I learned in my studies this morning 4*

Today's Meditation(s):

365 Tao: Daily Meditations #230 (Deng Ming-Dao)

I have so much to learn.

I'm trying to teach my child about relationships and love. About how love can take many forms and behaviors and that our ideal, romantic love, is a poor foundation upon which to build that base.

In doing so, I've engaged  others in my family to explore a book about it, but I have a problem.... The book uses a Jungian psychological model which they feel is too simplistic.  Because of this, they feel smarter than the lesson I am trying to teach.

The lesson is a basic lesson, a simple idea they feel too sophisticated to require. They do not see any value in it. They cannot overcome the language used to explain it.

(In some ways it reminds me of my philosophical training, all about words instead of concepts.)