The real meaning of
enlightenment is to gaze with
undimmed eyes on all darkness
~Nikos Kazantzakis~
Written by Mathew Naismith
As a good internet friend of mine posted
recently in reference to wisdom.
"Wisdom:
Stay away from people who think you are
arguing all the time you try to express yourself."
Indeed
Tawny, often an expressed wisdom is argumentative to those of the absence of
wisdom. Why? An incomprehensible is always a threat to people's egos, sadly, I
have experienced this numerous times.
Wisdom: The ability to apply knowledge, experience, understanding or common
sense and insight, also, the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with
common sense and insight.
Having only lived 56 years, I have noticed
within this short time how wisdom has quite quickly become shunned. The reason
for this is interesting in that at the same time honesty coupled with truth has
also become shunned by so many. Why?
Within the same short period, personal
satisfaction and desire has escalated, in that there are so many more external
sources to fulfil our desires and happiness these days. If the wisdom, honesty
and truth aren't fulfilling or so-called positive, it is immediately shunned
under numerous critically judged labels. No joke, this has occurred within my
short life time. Remember, this is also in the same predicted period of false
prophets. False prophets/people are predominately expressive of dishonesty and
deceit, especially of self-dishonesty and deceit.
Yes, express love and positiveness but at
what cost to other people? We are in this together, no amount of love or positiveness
will change the way we are unless wisdom, honesty and truth are apart of that
change. You cannot be of wisdom in the presence of desired honesty and
truth, in other words in the absence of perceived negatives. Negatives and
positives are of the whole truth therefore of honesty and wisdom, any desired
negative or positive is anything but of honesty therefore wisdom.
If at anytime you have to ignore a
negative, like with Palestine and Yemen, to
become and stay positive and happy, your positiveness and happiness is created
through the ignorance of what threatens your positiveness and happiness. If you
were truly positive and happy, no amount of external awareness, honesty and
truth would seem threatening to your ego. Yes, your ego will react to these external
forces, but when one is truly wise, the external influences are fleeting and at
no time threaten your own state of mind.
You know when you are wise in the absence
of desired positives and happiness, you simply can't judged what is not of your
own as negative or positive, however, don't at any time expect that your ego
won't always try to still judge in this way, as my own ego still tries to do.
To counteract this, enlighten your ego with wisdom, honesty and truth in the
absence of as much desire as possible. If you have to firstly avoid others who
can't comprehend wisdom, honesty and truth in the absence of desires, by all
means do so. You can't recondition an ego to something that is incomprehensible
to the ego. Being in the absence of states of anti-wisdom is comprehensible to
the ego you wish to enlighten. Once your ego becomes wise and aware, you will
come to a point where you become influential upon people of anti-wisdom. Yes,
at this stage your ego has no further need of avoiding people of anti-wisdom,
for you have turned the table of influence, in other words, your enlightened
ego becomes influential upon unenlightened egos, not the other way around.
So, if you are being shunned in any sense
when speaking of and through wisdom, honesty and undesired truths, this is a
sign of an enlightened ego. If you like, a very positive sign.
