To live falsely

In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.

— T.S. Eliot, East Coker

In Buddhism wisdom or prajna is supposed to discern the true from the false. Wisdom is thus independent—not dependent on other. This is why it can discern the true from the false. Wisdom comes from deep within wherein lies our primordial unchanging nature. Yet, most people new to religion lack any measure of wisdom. They embrace the false while rejecting the true only because they live falsely.

All the days of their lives, these unwise people have never once looked within because what is within seems frightening. To look within would be giving up the false.

Such people know nothing of their own spiritual being; and this nothing that they know is the nothing to which they hold fast refusing to let go. So when life’s problems begin to affect them, the first place they turn to is a path which will take them nowhere—the nowhere which is never within. And the teacher they chose to guide them will be a teacher who will lead them to a place without wisdom. And arriving there they will realize they know nothing.

Comments

[suvimutta]

logomachy.......wisdom is only meant disobjectification. Or, better said "wisdom is the capacity to clearly differentiate the Subjective kosmos-noetos from the objective one".

Being pithy is next to Divinity. (rasberries 2U)