What Is Wisdom? - The Ultimate Guide To Wisdom

A comprehensive explanation of what wisdom is, and its opposite, and how to develop wisdom.

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[berhentilahjadijudgemental]

2:23 What is wisdom
4:46 Characteristic of wisdom
34:50 The Opposite of wisdom
50:29 The fools see wisdom as foolishness. Analogy: wrestling with pigs in the mud
1:14:09 Example of fools
1:23:26 Two types of fool
1:26:16 Educated fools
1:30:50 Example of the wise
1:32:09 Highest wisdom
1:34:40 Source of wisdom
1:37:17 How to develop wisdom
1:43:15 Closure: good life needs wisdom
1:47:17 Contemplate for urself - what is the wisest way to live life?

[wierdoben]

For those who were worried about Leo, he posted on his blog that he was taking a couple months off to rest.

[alanwattslightbulb]

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[sen]

WHAT IS WISDOM
• is good judgement
• is the ability to set proper priorities
• is having keen discernment

Wise people are deliberative and thoughtful in the way they approach life

They relay upon concemplation and they ask powerful questions

They self reflect and they introspect

They are curious about themselves

They don't take themselves for granted

Wise people are existentialy oriented

A wise person doubts himself first and foremost, is sceptical in a moderated healthy way

Is caution without the fear behind it

THE WISE PERSON :
• takes responsibility
• is disciplined
• has an intrinsic motivation
• doesn't avoid emotional labor but faces it head on (is related to self discipline)
• the wise person is able to abstain and to control hes or hers cravings ( isn't a SLAVE to cravings) that makes a life full a suffering and deep mistakes, regrets and errors
• highly values education and learns from the mistakes of others
• an aspect of wisdom is exquisite balance
• is mature
• has high emotinal intelligence
• is able to admit when he's wrong
When someone is able to say I don t know that actually means he is smart

Wisdom doesn't mean perfection
Wise people make mistakes but they are able to recognise quickly when they are wrong, make a correction, not get hang up on it, not trying to cover it up

• is able to forgive and let things go
• is able to apologise, genuinely apologise
• is very careful when giving out advice because giving advice is a great responsibility, is not projecting hes situation into the other person situation
• is benevolent, compassionate and selfless
• values solitude and silence



THE OPOSITE OF WISDOM
• foolishness (is to opposite of the things listed before) = poor judgment and lack of discernment
• a fool has a poor sens of priorities in life
• the fool places the low above the high
Rather than pursuing the truth, which is the high, the fool pursuits the low (drugs, sex, pleasure, money )
• the fool is ignorant and proud of it


HOW DO YOU DEVELOP WISDOM
• Consciousness work
• self reflection
• introspection
• contemplation
Derive your own answers
• a deep curiosity about life. which is necessary to fuel you and do the work
• massive experience, failure, mistakes, suffering
But you have to do this in a councious way
• Expand your rage of experience, travel and talk to different people
• read a wide variety of books
• practice selflessness
• contemplate what selflessness is
• value wisdom, follow wise people
• study foolishness
• study your own psychology (self deception)
• study history
• explore diverse perspective
• observation without judgement
• self education
• life long learning
• meditation
• solitude
• solo retreats
• stop chasing pleasure




HOW TO APPLY THE INFORMATION
• spend time contemplating what is wisdom
Powerful questions
1. is this wise?
2. what would be the wisest move in this situation?
3. how am i being a fool in life?
4. how can i become more wise?
5. when you listen to a speaker.
is the stuff he is saying coming from a place of wisdom?
6. is this coming from wisdom?
7. how wise is this person?
8. what is the wisest way for me to live life?
• set the intention to be wise and stick with it.
• try to indentify sources of the highest wisdom

[Simoelfakkak]

Im 90% fool
And 10% wise
Man it’s a hard video to watch

[egodeathrow]

I have never clicked so fast in my life, Welcome back Leo, I love you.

[laralebeu]

Takeaway: I am a fool. (now a self-aware one)

[easy]

"Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another." - Rumi

[imortalizer]

A Buddhist Monk once said that wisdom is gained by one who reflects upon their own foolishness

[m.o.t.h.studios]

This has to be my favorite video youve ever done despite all the other wise videos to date. I know several people, friends and family that are such fools it hurts. Every quality of the fool you’ve mentioned hits the nail on the head. It makes me want to grab them by the collar and tell them what you explained so vividly. The unfortunate paradox is that the denial of such behavior runs so deep you couldn’t penetrate the these egos with a 50 cal. Bullet of truth! It’s frustrating to say the least. As you said we must suffer them. This video has also brought to light where I need to develop myself because I still tend to judge these people and am far from immune from they’re ridiculousness. I hope to transcend this someday. Thanks for these beautifully stated incites.

[frankyang]

3 levels of understanding on the Path to Awakening
1. Intellectual
2. Experience
3. Wisdom/Realization/Insight
Be careful not to confuse intellectual understanding with experience, and not to confuse experience with Realization/Wisdom/Awakening.
1 is understanding something with the mind.

2. is an experience, anything from being high on psychedelics or from meditation. Or any other experiences you accumulated through life. Both 1 and 2 remains in the conventional level of the "bodymind"

3. Permanent shift in Reality in a very visceral and "physical' sense that doesn't come and go like 2. Living embodiment of the true Nature of "Reality".
One good example is having your perception permanently altered from 720 to 1080 to 4k to 360 4k going from subject/object duality to non-duality, the merging of object and subject, finally to non-locality where neither subject nor object exist. And there's not even a sense of "this" merging with "that".
Another good example, one of the highest wisdom on the Path, is a cessation or a Nibanna, the non-experience that belongs to no-one, where your entire universe/matrix/Mind vanishes, is deconstructed and reconstructed again and again, all in the blink of an eye, so you "witness" how the entire matrix/self/Reality/perception, and even "awareness" itself, and all experiences from the highest mystical states to the most mundane are structured and being fabricated moment by moment.

Once you have a wisdom/Insight, it's LOCKED IN at the "cellular level", almost like you've took a quantum leap into a brand new Reality that you can never go back from, and you CANNOT HAVE A GENUINE WISDOM WITHOUT IT BEING A GENUINE WISDOM! Or else it wouldn't be manifested in the first place. Ta DAaa hahahaha

In short, everything that can be said about what is or what isn't wisdom, or any experiences that come and go belongs to 1 and 2.

There are no end point to 1 and 2. You can always gain more knowledge or experience.
There is an end point to the Awakening axis of development, ie. when Reality/Mind directly comprehends Itself. What I call the Perfect Knowledge of 0 to 0 synch up. Infinity Eats Itself In A Strange Loop in every moment of Being. Totally transcending, both INCLUDE time and space, mind and experience. It's the that manifests everything.
This doesn't mean there's no more "work" to be done after Realization, one can always have more 1 and 2 on the relative level and become ever more loving and compassionate, etc. But then again the Absolute IS the relative :D

[nickvoise]

Was watching his loneliness video then seen this notification and I never clicked faster.

[FaanaMusic]

And he's back! Was just about to go to sleep. Greetings from London!

[ReynaSingh]

Good to see you back 🙏 keep up the good content

[bradleyanderson]

Leo, I want to thank you for all of your videos and your knowledge you have shared. I have been watching your videos since I was 16, I am 23 now.

I have always been a deep thinker since I was a child. I have always felt different. I remember at the age of ten, the first time I questioned my existence and reality; I looked at my hand and wondered.

[xuan]

You got us worried, Leo! Welcome back 🥺

[angelangelov]

Absolute banger. Glad that you are back, your content is life changing. I started as a depressed 15 year old, now I'm 20 and on my part to escaping wage slavery.
Thank you Leo

[willyouwright]

Great parents dont inflict rules and judgements. They try to expand there kids perspective and show variety of ways to interpret and use life. And kids naturally fund their own strengths and talents

[lilibethbeltran]

I’m trying to help homelessness in my area

[HIXHAM]

“Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.”✍️