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wisdom
genkaku
Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
If I had to guess, I guess I'd guess that wisdom is not what you know, it's who you are.
What's your guess?
What's your guess?
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So for me, wisdom is both what you know and how you behave..
EDIT:
Although, i also believe there is a fine line between wisdom and being 'wise'..
"To have Wisdom - is what we know....
To be wise - is what we do.."
I have known some brilliant fools.
How so??
Prince siddhartha became a 'buddha' because of the knowledge that he finally understood. Hence, "we are who we are based on the things we 'know' and understand.. (For example, based on our childhood, upbringing, religions, our study, our buddhist practice etc etc)
We are who we are because of what we know. Simple as that!
Someone who is deluded is only deluded because he thinks deluded thoughts.
Someone who is enlightened is only enlightened because he thinks enlightened thoughts..
No recipe!
Real wisdom is not you.
It is
the absence of you.
Therefore although i agree with your words, i also have to disagree with it aswell! LOL
Chaos is the real constant.
Who is the dream denying this.
Awakening is finding wisdom
was simply everywhere I'm not.
unskillful stuff.
As a matter of curiosity, are 'we' deluded or enlightened when 'we' are not thinking? Are 'we' present or absent? Are 'we' alive or dead? And ... does it matter or not? @how -- I hope you will think that over. If absence or presence were more than tentative toys, I think Zen would long since have disappeared in the sands of time.
The old men who came before us did not concoct the four propositions so that students would then have a place to rest their heads or be immune to the howling winds. They offered them as encouragements and reminders not to stop and nest.
The four propositions were and remain:
It exists.
It does not exist.
It both exists and does not exist.
It neither exists nor does not exist.
When we are meme-copying machines, this type of wisdom is about copying the appropriate memes.
The real wisdom shows when no one can tell you what is right, when there is no standard procedure available or when it fails. When there is no appropriate meme to copy, what do YOU say or do?
In Buddhism – the way I understand it – it is crucial to reach the other shore and to leave the raft behind; which is an image for finding the real (your own) source of wisdom and leaving the standard procedures behind.
My wife always smiles when she sees how I cook from a recipe. She never uses one and it always tastes a lot better.
(IMO) I think wisdom, like compassion & love is the real nature of existence.
Our sense of separation from existence simply manifests as it's obscuration.
Reality (wisdom) is nothing more than abated ignorance or abated self promotion.
Wisdom always is itself, unclouded by our petty dreams of identity just as it is
when the dreamer awakens.
One can be present in an eternal
Zen sandbox, surrounded by all manner of toys but still dreaming.
Absent of self though is the awakening from the dream.
Gotta run now, Angelina Jolie is insisting on another massage.
Anything for a giggle . . .
Being wise as opposed to appearing, thinking wise thoughts or being empty of the causes of wisdoms lack is not for everyone or at times anyone. The best form of wisdom may adopt a foolish, silent or ordinary garb. Nakedness is not wisdom. Wisdom knows what to wear out. On with the parade . . .
:vimp:
Bravo. The beginnings of wisdom.
It starts nowhere else.
We can not understand all of the levels of wisdom at once but we can be wise enough to know the extent of our ignorance and the potential and source of wisdom. Digestion. Discernment. This is the beginning, we start to listen out for wisdom . . .
. . . meanwhile avoid wearing your waste bin as a head covering
On with the musical accompaniment . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komusō
The bart is no fool.
The fool who knows that he is a fool can, for that reason, be a wise man; but the fool who thinks that he is wise is, indeed, called a fool. Dhammapada.
neither was the Buddha.
William Bart Shakespeare
I would say no then because that person is deluded.
I don't want to look the fool and claim to know what wisdom is but I don't want the pat on the back for admitting I could be a fool.
I imagine I'm somewhere in the middle of the two and could lean either way depending on the circumstances.