Wisdom and Compassion. Wisdom and Skillful Means. These are innate aspects of all sentient beings. Baked in to the aliveness we experience. They aren’t separate from aliveness. Wisdom and Skillful Means are aspects of aliveness like heat and light are aspects of the sun.
What is Wisdom? Wisdom is experiential knowledge… street smarts. Knowing what to do and what not to do. This can range from mundane everyday street smarts to the highest form of wisdom, which we use to dissolve illusion and our confusions about reality.
What are Skillful Means? Ways of being in the world, really contributing to the world. Ways of serving ourselves and especially other people. The more we get in touch with wisdom, the more we clear the dust off the mirror of our perceptions, the more we can act with skill instead of from the habitual starting point of What’s in it for me?
Four types of Skillful Means:
Passify
Enrich
Magnetize
Disrupt
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