What is wisdom? This is one of the world’s timeless Big Questions. Wisdom is an endangered natural resource today, in our agitated and benighted world. We overlook and ignore it at our peril. Wisdom is as wisdom does. One would be foolish if enlightened only from the eyebrows up.

1. The Big Questions
What is wisdom? This is one of
the world’s timeless Big
Questions.
Wisdom is an endangered
natural resource today, in our
agitated and benighted world.
We overlook and ignore it at our
peril. Wisdom is as wisdom
does. One would be foolish if
enlightened only from the
eyebrows up. Wisdom is the
panacean pearl of great price,
and priceless too.
The Big Qurstions – Posted
By Lama Surya Das

2. Wisdom can be developed, and it can also be awakened within us. Working from
both ends or sides—from outside in, or from top down as well as from bottom up,
swooping while climbing—we can gradually explore, develop and attain
discerning wisdom through information and learning, first; then investigation
and inquiry, analysis, reflection and contemplation; leading progressively to
greater conceptual understanding, self-awareness and application (in daily life);
integration, realization, illumination, gnosis, and ultimately “the wisdom which
surpasses understanding”.
Meanwhile, we can attend mindfully to things and relations, causes and effects in
such a way as to awaken our direct intuition and an instantaneous, unmediated
(by thought and concept) holistic grasp of the entire situation. As the ancient
Chinese saying goes: She who knows the world has knowledge, she who knows
herself is wise.
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