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Is there anything you can say about the experience of wisdom?

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Maybe if it is different from other things like ignorance, for example.

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It seems so vast and deep that only the present moment is the important.

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Well, that's wisdom.

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That's wisdom.

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Seeing that there is so much out there, that it is so vast and deep, which is really the meaning of samsara.

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That only the present moment is important.

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That's wisdom.

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That's what comes from meditation practice, which I understand you're engaging in.

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through the practice of meditation, you will give up your external activities.

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Activities that have nothing to do with the present moment.

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You come to see them as useless, as unsatisfying.

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And you become bored and disenchanted with them.

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And you give them up.

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That's wisdom.

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The experience of wisdom is the experience of letting go.

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It's not an intellectual thing.

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Some

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You might say that disenchantment is really the essence of wisdom.

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It's this giving up of our attachments to things.

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But it can take the form of seeing three things, as we talk about impermanence, suffering and non-self.

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The problem with talking about those things is it comes to be an intellectual thing.

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When you mention impermanence, suffering and non-self to people who haven't experienced them, it becomes intellectual.

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The way a teacher would use impermanent suffering and non-self is for people who have already experienced them.

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Because they're the three things that we reject about reality, we cannot accept.

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So you explain to them, don't you see this is reality?

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What you're seeing is impermanence.

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And then they say, well, yeah, that's true.

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Because based on seeing these three things, you let go.

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When you see everything constantly changing and never static, never stopping, then you give them up.

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When you see things as unsatisfying as without any goal, without any

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final happiness, then you give them up.

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When you see them as uncontrollable, as going on and on and incessant, then you give them up.

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So that's wisdom.

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It's really quite simple and it's not something intellectual or something that you have to look for or that you have to evoke.

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It's something that comes naturally from seeing things as they are.