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Does Buddhist practice train wisdom?

It's all of a sudden, but I'm in trouble because my head is too bad.

Even when I think about things, it's hard to understand the answers, and it takes a tremendous amount of time until the answers come out. I always feel lost.

I'm sure this is also due to my poor wisdom.

If you practice Buddhism, will you be able to train your wisdom and gain a mind that won't hesitate?

4 Zen Responses

Wisdom in Buddhism

I don't think wisdom is something you can train. I don't think it's the speed of processing knowledge or anything with the head. There is a difference between wisdom commonly referred to in the world and wisdom in Buddhism.

I think wisdom is something you notice. I become aware of the truth through ascetic practice. When I say notice, it's expressed as if I were myself. I think it's like knowing that I'm going to disappear.

Is it an obsession, hesitation, delusion, or a specific thought

I've heard experiences where my head spinned faster when I meditated, but I don't know for sure.
However, in Buddhism, we observe the mind, so we may be better at dealing with hesitation.
When I'm at a loss, I first become obsessed with something, and due to my obsession, I have empty fantasies. Thoughts aren't specific.
Even if, let's eat rice balls or make bread, but yesterday was rice balls too, but I feel like eating bread, that looked good on the gourmet program this morning
If I have time to think about... etc., I also have time to bake bread and hold rice balls.
Also, if the first thing you see in front of you is bread, it's fast if you decide that today is bread.
Actually, when I'm at a loss, either one is fine for me at the moment (both are worth about the same).
So, you can roll the dice and decide it's nonsense.
Or, if you get new information about what you're unsure about, you may be able to find a decisive factor in your decision.
So, when in doubt, you should choose either of the following two.
1. If you think about it based on current information, it would be delusional, so decide it's nonsense.
2. Move even one step to get new information rather than being delusional, and since it's useless to think until you get new information, use your brain for something else.

When you can't move on to either of these two, the worry of greed (obsession) or laziness is probably getting in the way.

A vessel of wisdom

I'm sorry if I misunderstood.

Maybe Zenshu isn't good at listening slowly for long periods of time?
Even when I'm listening to people's conversations, I get caught somewhere, and even when I listen to the end, it's kind of unclear.
Haven't you had that experience?

After 80 years of life experience, any person has a lot of wisdom.
Of course, I think Zenshu's wisdom vessel is filled with overflowing wisdom.

Maybe Zenshu just isn't good at throwing it into his own vessel of wisdom?

People inevitably judge what is in front of them by their preconceptions, stereotypes, interests, mood at that time, etc., and what they pick up is different each time.

Even when it comes to listening to people's conversations, if what you hear is different from what you think, it's easy to get distracted by it and not hear other stories.

What is called a vessel has a “mouth” that can be put in and out of any vessel.

The size of the opening for putting in and out is different between a bowl shaped like a PET bottle and a bowl shaped like a bowl, even if it fits the same capacity.

Preconceptions and stereotypes make the frontal opening of the vessel as narrow as a PET bottle.

Anything larger than the frontal opening of the container you have must be crushed into small pieces and put it in, and it takes time to put it in the bowl.

Even if you have the same amount of wisdom, if you can't throw it into a bowl, you won't be able to refine it with your own wisdom.

It seems that there are many people who have worked twice as hard in their lives and have more experience and knowledge who cannot abandon their stereotypes.

Preconceptions and stereotypes hinder the flexible judgment one should have.

I'm sure Zenshu is too smart and is at a loss because he thinks too much about things.

Even if the length is the same between your own yardstick and someone else's yardstick, the size of the scale is different, and what you think is common sense is not necessarily common sense for others.

The practice of Buddhism may be suitable for disentangling such notions.

The difference between wisdom and wisdom

Wisdom is a brain function such as knowledge, language, discernment, etc.
In Buddhism, during ascetic practice, it is called “wisdom” from wisdom such as knowledge, and the function of the mind to be saved from worries and suffering appears. This grasps things as a whole and switches to a brain that receives the state as it is.
Speaking of modern style,
It can also be said that it is the ability to switch from left-brain function to right-brain function.
Since the left brain processes “past and future,” it is said that left-brain functions are responsible for analytical tasks such as knowledge and judgment.
Therefore, analytical thinking, called knowledge, wisdom, judgment, and evaluation, is centered around this function of the left brain.
Right now, the right brain deals with “now, here, and that” at any time.
Therefore, if you look at the side of the senses concentrated in the “here and now” of the right brain, there is an aspect that is far from past suffering and future anxiety, so if you focus on this, it can also be said that it is the power of salvation and the function of liberation in Buddhism.
There are times when things don't have to be answered linguistically or theoretically, depending on how you think.
“The facts are always there, solved and completed. Intellectuals are lost by knowledge. Wise people go beyond knowledge and settle for facts.”
Speaking in Zen terms, if you like to think, you may be bound by thinking and trying to come up with an answer, and you may be unable to move away from your thinking and thinking brain. = thought
The fact in front of you is that even if something feels imperfect or unfinished, that state is the truth right now. = noncontemplation = fact

I thought I should clean up the dishes I've finished eating
If you've forgotten, that's all
I wonder if I don't even feel like I have to wash