One of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. He is a meditation teacher and author.
Thoughts on “Wisdom”
Wisdom can be cultivated, and it can be found within us. Wisdom must be developed if we are to have any significant chance of surviving and flourishing as a race. How to develop it? What is wisdom? Wisdom is knowing reality, just as it is. It includes a higher form of objective judgment coupled with profound discernment, based on an illumined and lucid state of consciousness latent within us all. Tibetan Buddhist teachings tell us that wisdom is developed through three traditional forms of wisdom practices, or phases of true higher education: learning, reflection, and experience, which integrates learning and makes it our own. “Experience, not learning, leads to wisdom and the path to immortality” (William Blake). These practices help us to progress along the continuum from information and knowledge to understanding, insight, experience and ultimately wisdom; leading directly to inner freedom and spiritual enlightenment. Anyone can become wiser, more unselfish and loving through such a process. ~ Lama Surya Das