Many Eastern texts have sought to explain the "Perennial Philosophy" view of reality. Here the author attempts it using some concepts the ancients didn't have, and discusses how two varieties of Buddhist meditation can help us internalize this view.
Expert Author: Copthorne Macdonald | Category: Cultures An integral culture is emerging that incorporates an ethics which values both the-good-of-the-whole and the well-being of individuals. It seeks to create societal institutions that allow people to develop their innate physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual potentials, and lead people to voluntarily choose an empathetic caring-based personal morality.
We know what it takes to become knowledgeable, but what does it take to become wise? Is the process totally beyond our control, or are there things we can do to speed it up? In this article Copthorne Macdonald, author of three books on wisdom and webmaster of THE WISDOM PAGE, says that if we want to become wiser people we can develop the characteristics of wisdom - the relevant perspectives, and values, and intellectual knowledge - and incorporate them into our lives.
"High" or "superior" values are a hallmark of wisdom. They have two roles in the lives of wise people. First, they provide illuminating slants on the data of life. Second, they guide the decision-making process toward wiser decisions.
There are several varieties or "flavors" of personal wisdom. Here, Copthorne Macdonald discusses three of them as well as the back-and-forth relationship between personal wisdom and socio-cultural wisdom.
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