Why We Don’t Get It

If we only seek intellectual understanding, we will never find satisfaction. Why not? Because we lack the discipline to experience. We think reading about others’ experience is a shortcut.
It’s not. It’s plagiarism. 🙂

Plagiarism: from latin plagium ‘a kidnapping’.

We need commitment to practise.
Book learning is left brain dominance, which likes words, answers and stories.
Right brain is intuitive spatially aware, knowing without words through direct experience.

As well as mind training, we need brain training. Brain is the hard drive; mind is the software.

The truth of what we are comes before the imposition of words that are someone’s interpretation. We have to constantly remember that there are levels of understanding which have to be verified … by our experience.

The practice is meditation, and seeing how it affects our daily life, and our reactions to others. Do we remain open and kind-hearted, or are we obsessed with ideas and judgements?

When we get it – we know.
Wisdom is knowingness.

Knowingness: knowledge or awareness that is secret or known to only a few people.

What is the difference between knowledge and knowingness?
Knowledge can be acquired from reading, taking a class, or practical lessons at work. It is external. Knowingness, on the other hand, is a certainty that comes from experience, contemplation, and reflection.

Knowledge is factual, while knowingness is experiential.

This is what causes conflict in the world
– the spiritual war between belief and realisation.