Knowledge vs Wisdom

Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the wisest thing we can do isn't to necessarily acquire additional knowledge, but to unlearn some of what we thought we knew in the first place. Let's hold what we know very lightly, without any grasping or attachment, for we might need to let it go someday.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:32.0	I used to think the difference between knowledge and wisdom is application. I may know what's good for me for example but if I don't
0:35.4	actually do it then I'm simply knowledgeable not wise. I don't think wisdom is
0:41.3	about acquiring additional knowledge at all anymore.
0:44.5	Perhaps it's about letting go the illusion that we know any ultimate truths in the first place.
0:50.8	It was my dad who made an interesting observation when I explained my spiritual journey to him.
0:56.0	He said, Timber, you're not trying to learn anything new here.
0:59.0	You're just trying to go back to being two years old, aren't you?
1:02.0	I laughed, of course, but to some degree I think that's true. I mean, I didn't know how to be prejudiced when I was two years old or judgmental at that age. I was fascinated by everybody regardless of their race, their weight, height, gender, or even species.
1:17.6	We are all born caring and compassionate with the capacity to unconditionally love all sentient beings without exception.
1:25.2	But as soon as we are old enough, our parents, our teachers, our preachers, and society teach us to segregate
1:32.1	to only love and trust family members or at most people with the same colored skin.
1:37.0	As a result, by the time we reach high school, we're so disconnected from one another that we can watch an entire nation starving on TV
1:45.2	and not feel an ounce of compassion simply because they don't look like us.
1:49.6	It's sometimes not until after college, if at all, that we wake up to realize, hey, wait a minute,
1:55.0	they're people too.
1:56.6	They may not look like me or share the same beliefs, but they try to avoid pain just like
2:00.9	I do.
2:01.7	They want to fulfill a life's purpose just like I do, and they're just trying to get by.
2:06.0	I admit having felt very distant from people who were different from me in my pre-teen years,
2:12.0	but luckily we don't have to stay who we were when we were young.
2:15.7	Nowadays I can't even watch a caught fish flopping on the sand without feeling its
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