The Big Questions - Lama Surya Das

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The Big Questions

• What is wisdom? This is one of the worlds
  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
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Wisdom can be developed, and it can also be
awakened within us. Working from both ends or
sidesfrom outside in, or from top down as well
as from bottom up, swooping while climbingwe 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.   To more details
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