Date: 02/22/2025 02/23/2025
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
The Mechanism Through Which Genuine Wisdom Arises
Wisdom is not accumulated knowledge nor refined thinking, but the result of direct insight into experience. As confusion diminishes and grasping loosens, wisdom naturally appears. Practice does not manufacture wisdom—it removes what obscures it.
1.Wisdom Does Not Arise from Thought
1.Thought deals only with concepts
It cannot touch reality directly.
2.Knowledge is not insight
Understanding does not guarantee awakening.
3.Wisdom requires direct experience
Not inference.
2.What Obscures Wisdom
1.Attachment and bias
Fixed views block insight.
2.Emotional disturbance
Strong emotion distorts perception.
3.Ego-centered perspective
Limits understanding.
3.How Wisdom Arises
1.Through accurate observation
Seeing experience without distortion.
2.Through sustained awareness
Stability deepens insight.
3.Through releasing grasping
Space allows wisdom to emerge.
4.Through integrated experience
Not fragmented analysis.
4.Characteristics of Manifest Wisdom
1.Clear without tension
No struggle involved.
2.Flexible without weakness
Responsive, not rigid.
3.Simple and direct
Free from excess reasoning.
4.Naturally compassionate
Understanding self enables understanding others.
5.The Ongoing Function of Wisdom
1.Not a single realization
But a living process.
2.Continuously verified in life
Expressed through action.
3.Flowing with conditions
Unforced and unobstructed.
Conclusion
Genuine wisdom is not created, but revealed when obscurations fall away. The heart of practice lies not in gaining, but in letting go.
