06-07-2010, 12:00 AM
SelfHealedMadman wrote:I've always related this to Prajna. The word translates in English to 'wisdom.' What pra-jna means is pra means pre, or before, and jna means knowledge.
So wisdom, what I call direct knowing, as opposed to intellectual understanding or knowledge, is pre-knowledge.
In other words wisdom is that which we already know, just before we 'think' we know something.
When I think I have a question, I know already, something. But I'm not paying attention to that inner voice, that knowing.
I don't pay attention because I consider knowing something that is intellectual, something that can be written down, taught, told to someone else, or even write a book about.
But wisdom can't be transmitted that way. It's a direct knowing. It's the original mind experiencing itself. The minute it arises it is known. Because it is in itself exactly that; direct knowing. It is knowing what it is as it arises.
Well said. My experience has been that knowing can come from 'intent to know'. The process is to pursue the question, intellectually, but then the knowing arrives when one is ready to receive it and it does not involve thinking, yet to embark on thinking was a worthwhile effort to exercise the intent which lead to knowing.
Eventually when its seen that knowing is connected to intent directly, then one can curtail the thinking and just intend to know and wait for it to arrive.
So wisdom, what I call direct knowing, as opposed to intellectual understanding or knowledge, is pre-knowledge.
In other words wisdom is that which we already know, just before we 'think' we know something.
When I think I have a question, I know already, something. But I'm not paying attention to that inner voice, that knowing.
I don't pay attention because I consider knowing something that is intellectual, something that can be written down, taught, told to someone else, or even write a book about.
But wisdom can't be transmitted that way. It's a direct knowing. It's the original mind experiencing itself. The minute it arises it is known. Because it is in itself exactly that; direct knowing. It is knowing what it is as it arises.
Well said. My experience has been that knowing can come from 'intent to know'. The process is to pursue the question, intellectually, but then the knowing arrives when one is ready to receive it and it does not involve thinking, yet to embark on thinking was a worthwhile effort to exercise the intent which lead to knowing.
Eventually when its seen that knowing is connected to intent directly, then one can curtail the thinking and just intend to know and wait for it to arrive.