The Infinite Wisdom

Written by Mathew Naismith

First of all what is infinite wisdom, what is meant by when we say infinite wisdom? From the Cambridge dictionary; used to show that you do not understand why someone has done something and that you think it was a stupid action:

In action: The authorities, in their infinite wisdom, decided to close the advice centre.

Well I’m actually not meaning it exactly in this sense, what I do mean is that wisdom is limitless and eternal so what wisdom could be this limitless and eternal?  Some people would say God or the source of all creation and others would say someone who is very knowledgeable especially about most of everything that there is to know about however in my mind neither is exactly true.

Because spirituality is about the collective as a whole, how would we define what is or who is of infinite wisdom and who isn’t? You can’t actually do that without fragmenting the collective and once you have fragmented the collective you are no longer spiritually talking about the collective as a whole because of it’s fragmentation.  We could say God is the representative of infinite wisdom but what about the rest of consciousness. By stipulating God is the infinite wisdom of everything within existence, are we still talking about the collective as a whole? No not really because we don’t see ourselves of being of that infinite wisdom, that is wholly and solely of God’s domain however by doing this we are no longer talking about the collective as a whole.  The same would be if we were talking about people who are highly knowledgeable; we are still fragmenting the collective. So how do we get away from fragmenting the collective and still pinpoint what is meant by being infinitely wise and in whom is this infinite wisdom referring too?

Before we answer this question, what first of all makes one wise, is it knowledge and experience? In a human sense knowledge and experience would define wisdom, what about in a divine sense, would this be the same? Actually I don’t think so because I don’t believe infinite wisdom is of time therefor wisdom doesn’t come about through knowledge and experience because knowledge and experience are of time, time creates knowledge and experiences. Knowledge and experience just can’t exist without time to gain such knowledge and experience.  

So if it’s not knowledge and experience that creates wisdom what could it be? The only thing left is the divine but infinite wisdom can’t be just of the divine because again we are fragmenting the collective; there is no collective as a whole in this so what else could  infinite wisdom be referring too? Yes the divine isn’t of time but we are still fragmenting the collective whole.

The infinite wisdom is obviously referring to the whole collective which means you and me as well. How could this be when most of us are noticeably not of this infinite wisdom?  Ah but we are, we are just ignorant or unaware of such things that is why anyone who is more knowledgeable than we would seem to us to be infinite in their wisdom.  If we are all of this infinite wisdom how come we don’t show it?

There are two reasons for this, one is we think infinite wisdom comes through knowledge and experience and two we are just unaware of our prominence of being infinitely wise, it is actually our divine right, in other words it’s natural to us.  Because we only think in time, all wisdom has to come from knowledge and experiences and of course some of it does however infinite wisdom isn’t of time as is of the divine. The problem is we just don’t see ourselves as divine beings so we interact with each other in less than a divine way which is how we created a chaotic reality I feel.  

It seems so funny to me we can’t see ourselves as divine beings living unaware of our infinite divine wisdom, if we actually accepted this at the collective level to be true, this reality would change quite dramatically for the betterment of all. 

Why Wisdom is Flawed

Written by Mathew Naismith

The following is an extract from a discussion between me & another person on the subject of wisdom.  The discussion started off querying a supposition of who you would follow on a path, a person with a map which shows many dangers along this path or a person who leads you along a much easier path without a map.  The question eventually came, “would a wise person follow a person with a map showing many dangers ahead or would they follow the other person along a much easier path without a map?” I chose the map.  

http://www.spiritboard.net/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=questions&Number=121122&page=&view=&sb=&part=1&vc=1

Hfactor

I'm thinking it was the unharnessed intelligence using science and technology IE lack of wisdom

Wisdom is forged and proven sound by time...that's kind of how we know it to be wise.

Me

Yes I agree Hfactor, it's the way we used that wisdom once we found intelligence.

Is this a fault of this wisdom in not being wise enough to stop this misuse in the first place? 

Wisdom to me stems from philosophy & mysticism; philosophy gave us intelligence where mysticism gave us this connection to the inner self/God.  What actually went wrong?

Intelligence took over from philosophy & religion/churches took over from mysticism, how wise is wisdom? 

Wisdom is only as good as the philosophy & mysticism used, others would say it's only as good as the knowledge & experiences one obtains, either way wisdom is flawed if we are not wise enough to realise that wisdom is flawed in the first place by not being aware of these flaws in the first place.

To me this stems back to wisdom being at fault.

Yes I know this is flimsy but plausible to me.

This is only a philosophical view of mine, it’s certainly not gospel. 

Spirituality and the Push and Pull Effect II

Written by Mathew Naismith

The following is a recount of a discussion I had with a bloke by the name of Eddie. I found this bloke quite enlightening so again I thought I would share but another conversation with him which started off on the topic of unconditional love.  It is quite interesting where this conversation actually went too.

Eddie

We realize the unconditional true love the moment we simply allow all to come, stay and go as they like without the slightest movements of pushing or pulling but simply be. As long as all are happy so am I ~ Love.

Me

Eddie Lau I love your perspective on this.

It's hard for people to just let it be without having the urge/desire to push & pull, they’re not aware by letting it just be without a desire to influence, life becomes quite magical & serine~beautiful Eddie.  

Eddie

Just be without effort naturally is one with the nature of all itself. It is simple but we choose the hard way by seeking endlessly for the truth which we already are therefore we suffer.

Me

Eddie Lau It makes perfect sense Eddie only because we are aware. 

Eddie

Mathew Naismith We can only realize ourselves the moment the effort/intention to realize/seeking ceases.

Me

Eddie Lau Yes, I woke up to this some time ago, it took looking at my attachments as a falsity, how can you become attached to something you never own!!

It must be scary finding out you never even own your own thoughts, I always somehow knew this. If you don't own your own thoughts you own nothing & if you own nothing you have nothing to become attached too.

I have emotional feelings for people, places & things but I don't own or possess them. Having no attachments doesn't make one emotionless. 

Eddie

Mathew Naismith Oh yes, life goes on emotionally with different perspective called compassion knowing all as one whole entire nature itself doing our very best without attachment or trying to control being this or that now or becoming this or that in the future.

Me

+Eddie Lau I believe what you are talking about here takes wisdom to be aware of.

It's funny because I don't understand why most people aren't this wise to understand this, it's a far better way to live than the way they have chosen to live, it's beyond most people's imagination.

Most people make the mistake in attaching attainments to love when love can exist without such attachments.

I was chatting with a lass recently abut unconditional love, she attached pain to love, you can't love without having been in pain at least once. I said we have got to get away of the perception of relating pain with love.

In a reality of total unconditional love pain can't exist because the energy of this love is non-penetrable to anything not of that energy form like pain for instance.  

Eddie

Mathew Naismith We are already the wisdom itself the moment we claim nothing is belonging to us including the wisdom itself. All are indeed the one mind/nature of abundance. Free all as they are so that all frees us as we are.

It is ignorance or delusion not seeing things as they really are but we see things the old habitual ways that we are use to it clinging to what is known fearing the unknown. Therefore we keep seeking and running endlessly chasing our own tails.

I can never exist without you. We can never exist without the all that we can sense. Everything that we can sense are our teachers including our sharings here reflecting on each other on our curiosities and insights.

In reality, the existences were the continuation of the pasts renewing itself to the future endlessly and the only freedom is the wisdom or the understanding of nature/mind while life goes on and on without affection, not affecting the wisdom that was never born and will never dies. 

Me

Eddie Lau Very good answer Eddie, yes we are wisdom itself, I suppose all we have to do is remember this. 

"I can never exist without you", I have stated this a few times which of course to a person who only perceives in oneness can't grasp. It takes individuals to make a collective, oneness is a collective of individuals. Me, as an individual, is just as important than the collective.

The only reason we become aware of oneness isn't through the collective but individuals playing their part. Everything around us is individual parts of the collective, without these individual parts we have no collective.

I also have a lot of people saying we shouldn't think, just quieten the mind & everything will be alright. We have a mind for a reason, yes quietening the mind will improve our living conditions but we have stopped utilizing the mind. All we really have to do is reprogram the mind with different programs that include wisdom.

The way we are using technology today isn't wise obviously, we don't counteract this by dumping the mind but reprogram the mind with different more wiser programmed programs.     

I couldn't agree with you more when you stated, "the only freedom is the wisdom or the understanding of nature/mind while life goes on and on without affection". Trying to counteract the mind/thought with thoughtlessness is going right along with the push & pull effect, yes we are chasing our own tails.  

Younger Wisdom

Written By Mathew Naismith

I was recently reading an article about wisdom & noticed all the images were of old men which of course depicted wisdom, there were no women or younger people depicted strangely enough. Does this mean to become wise you have to be old & of the male gender? Sadly enough that is what seems to be depicted.

Have you ever come across what is deemed to be indigo children? The wisdom within some of these youngsters is amazing once you commune with them, no they don’t have the knowledge or the experiences we have but they come across as being more knowledgeable & experienced than what they should be at their age.   

We have made the mistake in thinking we need to be knowledgeable & experienced to be wise and of course you need to be male as well!!  In the past there were as many wise old women as there were males it’s just most of the women were burnt at the stake.  Women today, to a certain extent, are still being burnt at the stake however this post is more about being young and wise instead of old and wise

To a more illiterate society, being learned & experienced was wisdom but to a more literate society like today that doesn’t quite hold true. Being more aware of your inner self or being aware of knowing beyond your comprehension seems denote wisdom a lot more than just being experienced and knowledgeable.

Once you become connected to this inner self all of whatever was known is at our finger tips, this is where indigo children come into the scheme of things. Once we mostly and solely relied on human knowledge and experience to teach us wisdom but now that is changing as more of us become directly in touch with our inner selves.  Wisdom is no longer of the sole domain of the old as indigo children are showing.

Once you become in touch with your inner self you also become reconnected to the collective, this means everything that was ever known and experienced is right there in front of you.  Once indigo children begin to realise this they just bloom with wisdom.  This is of course the same with anyone but the big difference is the young aren’t supposed to be that experienced and knowledgeable at their age!!  It’s funny how our ego dictates to what we perceive at times. 

The Key is Wisdom

Written by Mathew Naismith

Note: There is a little confusion in what I call programs.  I refer to programs as being of belief system, ideological views and concepts that we use to train/program our minds turning what I deem as universal awareness into knowledge, giving our mind a better understanding of this universal awareness/consciousness. Religion and scientific studies are but an example of these programs we use to make ourselves more aware.

I had an interesting reply to my last post titled A Positive Reaction; there is no need for programs in a oneness state because the mind is completely still. I couldn’t agree more, any true oneness state denotes complete thoughtlessness therefore there is no need for programs or reprogramming in this state. There is one problem however, if we were meant to be thoughtless why would we have a brain that needs programming, we would actually be brainless if that was the case but where not?

The brain is programed through us becoming aware and the more aware we are the more this awareness denotes our brain being programed. The brain is as dumb as a door nail without awareness which the brain turns into knowledge but once we turn this awareness into knowledge that is where I feel we go off course.    

To me all awareness comes from the same source either it be scientifically aware, spiritually aware, medically aware or whatever, all awareness comes from the same source which makes it universal.  What changes this awareness within our brains is the program we use to turn this awareness into knowledge.  

Once you become at one in certain states of consciousness you are aware of everything there is to be aware of, at this stage, believe it or not, this awareness isn’t knowledge, it’s our ideological programs that turn this awareness into knowledge. For example, religion is a program and so is any scientific studies, these are all ideological views programing our minds to decipher this universal awareness  to what we have been culturally brought up to believe.  For an example; my wife and I went on a cruise to some of the Coral Sea islands recently, on some of these islands cannibalism was practiced until these people where reprogrammed by religion, they of course no longer practice cannibalism.  

Science endeavours are no different, once we knew the world was flat now it’s not through furthering our awareness which increased our knowledge that the world was no longer known to be flat.

Our awareness and consequence knowledge has furthered our awareness and knowledge and the more aware we become the more knowledgeable our minds are becoming, this all takes programming our minds in certain ways.  There are two main problems in programming our minds however, one is there are numerous programs out there that program our minds differently to other programs. For example, the multitude of different and sometimes opposing religions shows this.   This denotes a fragmented consciousness which is what gives us the chaos we have today, different cultures and social status are also of this fragmentation.   

The second problem is the lack of wisdom.  You can obtain all the knowledge in the world and still have no idea in how to use this knowledge wisely, the way we live today is a prime example of this.

This brings us to why so many spiritually aware people defuse the effects of such programming through going straight to the source of all knowledge and awareness without seemingly using any program to do so.  This program, and yes it’s still a program, takes us directly to oneness states of consciousness. The reason this is still a program is we are aware and knowing that we are in this oneness state of this consciousness.  If our minds knew nothing of this oneness state we wouldn’t know we were experiencing this oneness state, we just wouldn’t be aware of it.

In this awareness state of oneness there I no programs because there is no knowledge to build such a program because again there is no need of such programs in this oneness state, awareness is all there is.  While in this oneness state wouldn’t we be aware of this oneness state without actually having to know it? Yes but to get to this state of oneness in the first place we still need a program to inform our minds about this oneness state, the mind still needs to become further aware through a program.   Once you are there you realise you no longer need a program however if you are still finding it difficult to reach this oneness state this still takes a program to do so.  Yes I know our egos want us to believe we never needed a program to reach this state but my egoless self says otherwise.  

We have a brain which needs programming no matter what we become aware of, that is unavoidable unless we become detached from our minds but even then to become detached it still takes a program to do this in the first place.  

The key is balance between our mind and mindlessness and what gives us this key is wisdom. Believe it or not wisdom doesn’t even exist outside of the mind but it is the key to mindlessness or thoughtlessness/stillness.  All that reside in this universal awareness is pure awareness; wisdom isn’t even present however wisdom is the key to this universal awareness for beings in a state of mindfulness.   Again our egos want us to believe that wisdom resides outside of the conscious mind but to me it doesn’t because all what wisdom is, is the key between the mind and this universal awareness and to use this wisdom correctly the mind needs to be programmed to do so.  

It all comes down to a program but to program our minds wisely. 

Divine Mentality

Written by Mathew Naismith

It would seem our mentality through history has changed very little, we are pretty much doing the same onto others as we did thousands of years ago, warring & slavery of one kind or another are good prime examples of this.  You would think by now we would have taken on, as a collective, some of what divine mentality is all about!!  

Yes sure we are not burning people at the stake, chopping off hands and feet in most countries or flogging people in public but this has little to do with how our mentality has evolved from these barbaric practices.  There are many people today, if they could, would be doing just what they did thousands of years ego which shows how our mentally has changed very little over time.  If we are still slaughtering each other for power and greed our mentality hasn’t changed that much at all over how many thousands of years however all's not lost!! 

There have been many prophets & enlightened people teaching us some of what divine mentality is so we can save ourselves. This hasn’t failed completely but we still have the minority who only have some kind of awareness of divine mentality.

 What is divine mentality?

The teachings of people like Jesus and Buddha are a prime example of divine mentality as of other prophets & alike. We have had the opportunity time and time again to expand past our antiquated mentality collectively but have chosen, on mass, to proceed with our archaic designs.  I believe divine mentality is any mentality and awareness beyond our present archaic mentality, the strange thing is human history shows time and time again how groups of people and individuals in the past became aware enough to overcome this archaic mentality.  We usually call these people wise.

Now we can say that it’s knowledge that gives these people wisdom but to me that’s not quite correct, you can know all of what is to know and still not know how to use this knowledge, this is where awareness comes into it.  Our heightened awareness tells us all of what we know or will ever know comes from the same source however if we are stuck in an archaic mentality we can’t be aware past the knowing of this archaic mentality  and we will presume all of what we know comes from human knowledge.

Awareness of more than we know gives us wisdom I feel, this goes along with a quote I wrote recently; “Knowledge is knowing what we are aware of, wisdom is being aware of what we don't know!! “

Divine mentality comes about by being aware of what we don’t know which of course is what is defined as wisdom.  I inserted this quote on the thinkers community and it was a big hit, no one argued it’s definition.  If we have no realisation of being aware of what we don’t know this denotes the archaic mentality I’m writing about here today however if you have some sense of correctness of this quote you are starting to delve into the divine mentality I feel.  

I believe everything come from an intelligent divine consciousness, all we need to do is remember who and what everything is and truly believe it.  In the mean time we should try not to idolise in others what we are. People like Jesus and Buddha never wanted to be idolised but listened too to take on some of their divine mentality so we may help ourselves.  

We are all divine beings but we will only become aware of this if we take on divine mentality!!

Knowledge & Wisdom Explained

Written by Mathew Naismith

Is wisdom & knowledge one of the same or are they quite different? The link below I found to be a very good source of info answering this & many others questions about wisdom & knowledge.  Is knowledge needed to gain wisdom or can wisdom be gained in other ways? This is a difficult question because knowledge is of time & wisdom isn’t as the link below explains further.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Knowledge_vs_Wisdom

Extract: “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” - T. S. Eliot. Knowledge is gathered from learning and education while most say that wisdom is gathered from day to day experiences and is a state of being wise. Knowledge is merely having clarity of facts and truths while wisdom is the practical ability to make consistently good decisions in life.

In the comparison chart I found it interesting finding timelessness & experience under wisdom. Under knowledge it sounds awfully like control where’s under wisdom it sounds like it’s releasing control, spirituality is about releasing control not enforcing it I believe. What dominates our reality at present? Time & knowledge & as long as these stay prominently dominant we will probably never find peace collectively however at the individual level we can.   

We should remind ourselves if we are spiritually aware that the reasoning process of a knowledgeable person can & should be somewhat different to a wise &/or a spiritually aware person. It would seem knowledgeable people will dominate through control where’s spiritually aware people are of releasing control. Knowledgeable people are of time where’s spiritually aware people aren’t. Can we mix the two together?  Not usually successfully, the dominance of knowledge & time will always try to control so it’s always a battle.  Is this why so many of us have such a battle while becoming spiritually aware? It would certainly seem that way to me.

Meditating, praying, chanting singing can give us a disconnection from time & knowledge thus control, no wonder we feel so much better while conducting in such spiritual practices!!

This post, believe it or not, was inspired by a confrontation on a spiritual site dominated by people who are quite knowledgeable & very controlling. The confrontation was brought about my post titled A Wise Man Wise, because some people couldn’t get the gist of the story they quite destructively criticized it. The difference between people who didn’t get the gist of the story was quite amazing, some people were quite obviously constructive within their criticism & advice but others where more aggressive. The continues use of high caps was obvious; it’s a form of yelling & yes control. What do we do when our kids are out of control & how do some of us take control back? We yell!!

So what is this saying about this post being inspired by unbecoming behaviour? It’s saying goods things can always come from unbecoming experiences, it’s a part of becoming aware for all of us.  Experience can bring forth our wisdom from within!! 

http://www.ajna.com/spirituality/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=5211

Wise Man Wise Re-Examined

Written By Mathew Naismith

http://mgnaismith.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/a-wise-man-wise.html

I inserted my post titled Wise Man Wise on a spiritual site however it wasn’t well understood by most people & because it wasn’t understood some people picked the eyes out of it. The following will hopefully explain this story a little better.  

Hi Mathew

Your story went over my head and I 'glazed over' by the time I finished, I like to keep things simple, this was too complicated for me to grasp, could you put the lesson/teaching into another story for my simple mind to get.

L n L

P

G'day angelman

Sorry for that, I'm not a writer by no means, actually this is the only story I've ever written except from school days so I don't think I  can rewrite the story however I will explain it better.

The story was written from an insight I awoke with one morning, I thought I did a good job in writing this up as a story & of course so did others that could obviously see through their limitations. 

It's about being wise enough to overcome our limitations by seeing them as something to be learnt & not denounced in some way because we can't see past our limitations. This is like passing the buck so we don't have to be accountable. The villager was passing the buck because all he could see was he's own limitations not something to be learnt & once he learnt this he was ecstatic.

Pondering here within the story is in reference to not thinking & once this is done one is able to see the bigger picture. The villager was obviously only looking at the small picture through he's limitations but once he saw he's limitations as something to still be learnt he no longer saw he's limitations as a  blockage or a hindrance.

The villager was obviously able to lead because he already knew of the wise man before he arrived, he was already wise & connected to his inner knowing but needed guidance to know of this wisdom within himself. The wise man didn't do much at all actually but remind the villager of how he was looking at his limitations.

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Our limitations, like in the story, are ego influenced in saying we have limitations however the villager soon learnt to not cover up he's limitations by seeing he's limitations as something to be yet learnt.      

Lacking Confidence-an Ego Trick

Written by Mathew Naismith

Recently I become involved on a science minded site that is also accepting of the spiritual side of life as well however some people on this site are quite intolerable of anything to do with spiritual matters however believe it or not this wasn’t the problem, the problem was actually me.

People will believe what they want to believe & will at times defend this belief to the utter end which is fine & expected especially on sites like this one. The funny thing is this is where science & spirituality are the same, they both have their extremes which produce extreme beliefs however again this wasn’t the problem; the problem was I still lacked confidence in what I knew. I just didn’t realise what I knew until now, none of us do until something tells us so but of course we also need the wisdom to listen to what is being told at the time.  

I kept being drawn into arguments by people who were all about science & yes they did know their stuff even about certain aspects of spirituality however their mind was set on concrete evidence all the times when science itself isn’t of concrete evidence but theories. Even after this was determined & after producing evidence that fraud is quite prevalent within science studies these science minded people wanted sound concrete proof from others who were into spirituality even though they couldn’t supply such things themselves within their own arguments. Why was I being drawn into such arguments? It was simple which I didn’t realise at the time,  I lacked confidence which was brought on by the ego telling me I wasn’t good enough & knew enough while  in discussion with such science minded people.  After tacking a step back from the situation I then realised I knew more than they did in many ways. As soon as I produced sound scientific evidence they went immediately on the defensive & argued about any silly point they could even to the extent in attacking my persona, this proved at the time I was as good as them however I didn’t realise this until I took a step back & became the observer.

I’m into science, philosophy & spirituality to one extent or another so I do know my stuff however I allowed people, with obvious controlling tendencies, to intimidate me or more precisely intimidate my ego  which I expressed a little too freely obviously which gave  me lack of confidence while dealing with such controllers. We talk so often about the ego giving us an over bloated confidence & how negative & destructive this can be but lack of confidence is just as bad.

As soon as these science minded people on this science/spiritual site became threatened by my presence I should have realised then & there I was as good as them even in regards to science matters.  The good thing to come of this is I know now what I know & what I don’t know really doesn’t matter at all.  Allowing actual experiences of life to teach us awareness & wisdom in this way can have it’s drawbacks however within these drawbacks we find even more wisdom but only if we are wise enough to be aware of such things in the first place.   

A Wise Man Wise

Written by Mathew Naismith

Edited by Karla Blowers

Note: I should state here that I didn’t take on all of Karla’s suggestion however most of the syntax errors have been corrected.

I have inserted a further part to this short story in the hope to be able to explain more of what the story is about in bold letters at the end of this post.

A wise man wondering about the countryside came across a valley with a large village poised in the middle of it and stopped to ponder.  All of a sudden, a person from the village appeared and approached the wise man as if he was expected. Without introducing himself first, & without hesitation, the man from the village asked, “Will you be our mentor & leader?”

The wise man poised in silence and then asked of himself in quietness, “Will I be their mentor and leader?” The man from the village stood by in bafflement wondering why a wise man would not answer such a simple question immediately.

An answer come from within the wise man and was immediately relayed to the man from the village; “It takes a wise man to see a wise man.  What you see in me, you are also.  From this, all one needs to do is become aware enough to know this”.

The man from the village seemed even more baffled and perplexed while looking down towards the ground pondering to what this all means. Looking up at the wise man again, in silence, the man from the village poised in thought, "I see your wisdom so what you are saying I too am of that wisdom but that isn’t so!!"

Immediately, noticing what the man from the village was thinking, the wise man said, “It takes a very wise man to ponder, and a not so wise man to not ponder at all. All answers are within, and to connect with this inner knowing one must pause & ponder in silence to obtain such knowing from within.  My friend, you are ready to take lead, as you have pondered”.

“But I don’t have the knowledge or experience to lead as you could”.

The wise man replied without  hesitation as he was still speaking from within – said “A wise old man once said, “It is  far wiser to know one’s limitations, and it’s  another to allow these limitations to limit oneself ”  Knowledge and experience will come if one is wise enough to know of one’s limitations, as you have done”.

Still perplexed, but understanding the wise man to a point, the man from the village said, “So if I became leader and mentor of my own people, wisdom is all I need?  Knowledge and experience will come forth as I no longer limit myself to these limitations?”

Immediately, the wise man replied, “Nothing is impossible if we ponder for a moment, for it is within this pondering that we become wiser and more understanding of our inner knowing. Not only will we become more aware of what is around us, but we will become more knowing of all without thought.   You must be aware of what is within.  Are you, or are you not ready?”

Looking down at the ground the villager pondered for a moment, & with a determined look upon his face he looked straight into the wise man’s eyes & was about to ask another question when the wise man queried, “Have you noticed how you look down while pondering?”

“I suppose so” the village man replied.

“Wisdom isn’t of finding awareness when looking down, for in this lies our limitations. When pondering, always look about and within.  Once you learn to do this, knowing will come from being aware, not looking down into our limitations”.

All of a sudden the village man broke into a huge smile, “I’ve got it!  I’ve got it!”

“Indeed you have my wise friend,” was the last thing the wise man said to the man from the village as he leaped down to his village within the valley yelling out “I’ve got it!”

While still in ponder, the wise man  watched  the man from the village leap and yell down towards his village in glee, the wise man thought for a moment, “I am now mentor and leader of but another village without even wanting it to be.  Such is wisdom.” He then turned away from the valley with the village below and strolled off into the countryside again, not knowing, or wanting, or needing to know for where his wisdom will take him.

Wisdom was needed in this story to not just identify wisdom within all ourselves, but to identify and understand that our limits are there to show us what we don’t know and understand.  The villager had the wisdom to identify with his own ponderings, but didn’t as yet understand that he’s limits were actually limiting him; he saw them as borders to never be crossed unless one was experienced and knowing enough to cross them.  Once the villager realised these limits weren’t there to limit him but to show him what he didn’t know and understand, he became more aware of his inner wisdom and yelled out “I’ve got it!”

Everyone, believe it or not, has this inner wisdom; we just see limitations instead of wisdom as the villager did.  Also, pondering in this circumstance wasn’t about thinking either, it was pondering without thought to attain inner knowing which of course isn’t of actual mindful thought.     

Awareness to Wisdom

Written by Mathew Naismith

I like to share what ever might be beneficial to others in anyway & the below is no different. This is from one of my internet friends on Spiritual Board pertaining to helping people develop their own abilities & not learning someone else’s ability that usually doesn’t suit us. We can learn everything there is to know about spirituality & still be confused & unable to use such knowing to the best advantage & this is where wisdom comes into it which gives one the wisdom in knowing how to use such knowing in our own unique way.

The following is in reaction to my post titled Spiritual Difference in Perception with the following reply from BlackbirdRising: I wrote up a post titled Spiritual different in perception which is about how different belief systems make us think in certain ways & how our perceptiveness of ourselves & the world is different to each other but I got a funny reaction to it. I placed this post on various Google communities, philosophy, thinkers, spiritual blogging, spirituality & Rexsy universal consciousness. I got more of a favourable response from the thinker’s community than from the spiritual based community however I did end up with a few on the spiritual community.

It’s also about being wise with our newly found spiritual awareness because at times we aren’t that wise with it but of course this is no different to what we are doing in main stream society with consumerist materialism. We have become more aware of technological advancements but we are unwise in how we are using this newly found technological awareness because it’s killing off the planet at an alarming rate. Conscious awareness isn’t just about one kind of awareness but relates to all forms of awareness as it’s all of consciousness & of course all spiritual because everything of consciousness is of the spiritual.  

Reply:

Mathew, I recently started a class for a group of people who wanted to learn how to develop their own abilities, open the crown and third eye chakras, etc. The very first thing we opened discussion about was perception and our differences, and how that affects our spiritual sight  I talked to them about opening and strengthening the ability to see without your eyes, and shared educational games designed for that purpose (by my grandmother who died when i was 11). Its humbling and inspiring to watch these people develop and have their "first moments" of accurate foresight. Very thankful to be able to coach them in this beginning, and in awe because i know that very soon they wont need me.

G'day BlackbirdRising

This is great BlackbirdRising, I noticed you mentioned accurate foresight, couldn't agree more because I know within myself & others we have had a number of inaccurate foresight's.

This is great work, you must be so proud of your human self doing all this & coping with your own personal problems as well, I'm proud of you.

Do you do this on line? If so would you mind giving me the relevant links so I can link people back to you via my blogs as I find this important for people to know, I might even right a post on it for my blog in relation to this.

Love

Mathew

Below is the link that BlackbirdRising sent me in reply to my reply to her, hope it helps as I’m sure it will.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/forelightforesight/

True Wisdom, Not for Everyone

Written by Mathew Naismith

“One must be wise in ones knowing to gain wisdom”.  After reading how someone on Indigo Society was going through a tough time with the awareness process I stumbled across this quote I wrote up a while ago, I thought this quote says it all in a nut shell. One must be wise in our own & every bodies else’s knowing to be of wisdom, this isn’t saying we should be understanding of all just wise enough to accept other peoples understanding but also wise enough to help in their misunderstandings, this by far isn’t an easy life to lead while becoming spiritually aware.

I’ve inserted the said thread below with the associated link.

http://indigosociety.com/showthread.php?71873-The-fear-of-God

I have been in hard times with interpersonal issues and family issues, and a lifetime of misery. I asked God, universe, to show me what life is. Humble me lord I said, I am so tired. I know this sounds dramatic, and it is. But I said it, and I meant it. I prayed with every layer of my soul to see the humanity in all. To find rest, and dont get me wrong this search never ends. I prayed to be shown the value of life. Because frankly I did not use to value it whatsoever. I prayed for God to destroy me, make me new. I said GOD PLEASE I BEG YOU ERASE ME, I CANT DO IT ALONE. And I screamed inside. And then I started seeing floaters in my vision, and flashing lights. I have been paranoid alot of my life of a brain tumor. I matched alot of symptoms, and I told God I have hate in my heart for you for the possibility of this being true after everything else.

Basically I created my worst nightmare in my head, I made it true in my mind, and I accepted it on MOST levels although I was always afraid, and I felt the SENSE of death, its dread and its fear, infinity. And then I realized in my heart, life is a privilege, and it is so so sweet, and so so short. I should be thankful for the beautiful 19 years I have had here, and then I thanked God for my life. The pain, the good. just, life in all its forms. And I realized in my heart that Death is always there, it merely raises and lowers its head from time to time. Death is your constant companion. I am not sure if I even believe in reincarnation anymore, I don't think I believe anything. I dont know much of anything, I know how I feel, I know my thoughts. I know I am here, right now. I feel like a blank slate, a canvas. A canvas open for whatever paint life throws at me. And I know I have felt the power of universe and I bow to it without question. And this life long lone wolf, this predator I made myself has finally found a team. Team human, I am shedding this byproduct life of being told who I am. I felt compelled to share this so here it is, and as to do I have a brain tumor? I dont know, I went to the doctor and they dont think so, they think its my thyroid and they took blood. But I cant really know, I can only hope that I will continue to be allowed on this ride. Because this shit is out of all of our hands everyone. So thats it, Much love. Much respect. And thank everyday for showing itself to you.  

Written by ZIGMAN

My reply as follow:

G'day ZIGMAN......Becoming spiritually aware isn't an easy road to tread & neither should it be however if we live for the now the road we tread will seem a lot less bumpier. Becoming aware doesn't just entail us becoming aware of all the nice things but all the not so nice as well I'm afraid but once we get to a certain stage of awareness all the things we struggled through seem lame, " why was I struggling with such things"? It's the struggle that makes us aware & knowing which is very much like a spoilt child, if we spoil them what awareness do they have to a child who isn't spoilt? The unspoilt child is going to be far more aware & knowing the same with adult life. One other thing, to me there is no such thing as death, all it is is a change from one energy form to another, we are infinite within our soul....Love Mathew

It is extremely difficult to be wise within our knowledge while feeling so much of everything & that is why spiritual awareness is a difficult path to follow & at the end become wise within our knowing, not everyone makes it to true wisdom but of course we don’t have to either.  People of true wisdom once they reach a certain point of spiritual awareness are special because they have done the hard long hoe for us; it is not necessary for all of us or is it even possible for all of us to obtain such wisdom. Life is all about living within our chosen path, yes we have our own free will to do as we please at the soul level but once we leave our path we immediately affect other people paths as well not just our own because it’s all connected, I don’t think this is wise or just/moral thing to do as it affects to many other souls.

What we need to do is be content in just being wise enough to acknowledge true wisdom from others anything other than this can be of the negative ego which of course will again hinder & limit our awareness, this is why so many people are having a hard time of it, we are trying too hard to be something were not supposed to be.   Acceptance & contentment play a huge part in following a spiritual awareness path with relative ease, no spiritual path is easy but we do make it a lot harder than it should or could be at times.  

No one in their right mind would follow a path of true wisdom on purpose if they knew what was to follow with such endeavours unless that was their chosen path to begin with.