10-10-2011, 06:22 AM
(10-10-2011, 04:45 AM)Namaste Wrote:That was a quite powerful explanation.(10-09-2011, 11:37 PM)zenmaster Wrote:(10-09-2011, 07:28 AM)Namaste Wrote:What is intellect?(10-09-2011, 03:04 AM)GrandKitaro777 Wrote: I'm open minded of your experience and I didn't dismiss it at all, but you can never know the absolute truth of something until you experience it, wouldn't you agree?
Absolutely.
Intellect is fed from the reported experiences and ideas of others. Intelligence is understanding concepts.
Wisdom is gifted by direct experience. Wisdom is knowing.
Only one of these provides absolute truth.
Intellect and wisdom is an analogy to offer the notion that experience is the only means in which someone can find absolute truth.
One could spend a lifetime learning - and this includes the concepts in the Law of One - and yet, have no experience of any of it. To those people, their truth is a belief. To those with wisdom - experience - their truth is a knowing. An example here is Egyptologists. Their intellect is serving as a hindrance, as they are failing to accept the wisdom of geologists regarding the rocks around the Sphinx. One of those groups knows. The other thinks they know.
Of course, the intellect is a tool that helps one in the eternal now, to understand circumstances and catalyst. This discussion originated the context of experience.