So then, how does wisdom relate to love? Wisdom and love compliment each other wonderfully in the grander scheme of things. There is a kind of knowing that comes from loving authentically. It’s a mistake to believe that stoicism or emotionlessness is requisite in spiritual practice. It’s key, however, to not love in a possessive or attached way. When you commune with and have a great care for something or someone, there is a unifying wisdom to that. And whereas hate creates distance among us and weighs society down, love has the capacity to elevate us above this physical plane, into the plains of Spirit. It may sound odd, but loving even the simple things around you breathes aliveness into your life.

“The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.”

Dr. Frederick Lenz, Rama

Having an outlook on the things and people around us that is rooted in love helps us make our way through a world that can often be unpleasant. Of course there may be places and situations that are draining or difficult in other ways. But to neglect to observe and appreciate the perfection and beauty of the Universe, and to fail to consider that a place or situation that might not rub you the right way does work for someone else is a kind of lack of wisdom. The wiser you become, the more you realize that there is an individual path and truth for everyone, and not the path that you’ve necessarily deemed to be the right one for them. It opens your mind up to be more flexible, more lucid, to hold space for the incredible possibilities for yourself and for others.

 

Wisdom beyond definition

These are all constructive ways of conduct while one is interacting with the waking life – to be mindful while commuting, working, interfacing with friends, foes, family, to have appreciation and open-mindedness on a day-to-day basis. But to take it to the next level, developing real wisdom is gleaned while on the meditation mat. The wisdom of samadhi is not really possible to describe with words. Music could put us in touch with it a little better, but it truly must be experienced to fully grasp. When you stop thought for a long enough period of time, you venture beyond the consciousness of your daily life in this world. Your mind merges with light, and in those moments, there is not even an experiencer of the samadhi. The self goes away, and when you come out of samadhi, having visited the other side, you are not the same being as you were before. Wisdom is in the journey there, and in the absorption in nirvana itself. It’s beyond astral planes, in something which has been described as causal light planes. It’s something that can’t be known with our standard CPUs, here on the mundane side. But it is accessible to anyone who is willing to sit in perfect meditation in order to earnestly explore.

 

Going into samadhi is like climbing to the top of Mount Everest and having a good look around from that perspective. When you come back down the mountain, and get pulled into the daily grind of your normal life, you forget much of what that experience was like, however you are eternally changed from having gone through the change in awareness that climbing to the peak gives you. You are forever changed from having touched eternity at the top of the figurative Himalayas, so the “you” that comes back down is not really the same you. When you return to the top of the peaks, or the “other side” in deep meditation, many many times, you are more there than here. You are in a kind of samadhi called sahaja samadhi.

 

But remember! There is a groundedness and balance to these consciousness-shifting peak meditations. The higher and brighter your mind goes, the deeper you become, and the more awake and pulled together you are in this physical, sensorial world.

“The pure and perfect radiant light that you experience in the planes of light and the experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things, and you see the world with greater clarity, because it’s not obscured by personal desire, vanity, egotism and thought, by illusions. Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don’t have illusions, they just see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.”
Dr. Frederick Lenz, Rama

And on this quest, know that there isn’t really an end state. Enlightenment and wisdom stretch on forever in eternity. To think of it in a hierarchical way is flawed. It’s more relational than echelons of conscious attainment. When you understand and live by this wisdom, you see that there’s no reason not to face the world with love, and joy, and peace. You become, in a way a mirror of the perfect, relational Universe, and you’re much happier doing so.

 

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