Old Wisdom verses American Wisdom verses My Wisdom

Comparing the three paths to wisdom
Throughout history the greatest progress of mankind has come through wise leaders. Historical events that were powered by wisdom have changed the fate of mankind for ever. Today we are where we are due to the struggles and sacrifices of wise leaders. Faster world progress is possible through learning the lessons of history. Wisdom can provide solutions to the most complex problems. Lets consider the American way to wisdom and my way to wisdom.

In the ancient world the elders knew that wisdom was the best way to a perfect life. They tried to research what wisdom is and when they could not pin down wisdom they made a list of all the traits of wisdom. They started teaching ways to develop all these traits like love, compassion, humbleness, sacrifice, love of learning and grace etc.
They thought that by teaching all these traits of wisdom they could create wise human beings. They could not succeed. Meanwhile they saw that there were many amongst them even young ones that were wise and that many became wise by the time they grew old. So they concluded that wisdom is either a character trait that you are born with or you become wise by experience and old age.

This view of wisdom has continued to be the same till the present day. Not much progress has been made. The concept of wisdom today is not much different from the past. When we define wisdom we start by quoting the ancient philosophers like Aristotle. Main stream education even today does not differ much from the concept of the ancients. When it comes to defining wisdom Aristotle is still the boss.

Ancient wisdom education means leaving the hate in the mind and gradually grinding it out with love education. It is a long and hard process that does not take all the hate out. Its like implanting wisdom along side hate. Feeding wisdom and starving hate. Eventually hate disintegrates and wisdom prospers but in the meantime peak life is already over. Ant there is not much life left to take advantage of wisdom education.

Enter the wise writers of the American Constitution. They laid out laws of how to guide individual lives and how to run the country. They laid out the laws based on the ultimate code of Mother Nature - wisdom. It is like they were saying that they knew the path of wisdom and they made it clear what the path was. They made it clear that the path of wisdom was the legal law of the land. The results are for everyone to see. Following the path of wisdom individual lives and the country of America have prospered like no other. They did not know or did not care to know what wisdom was precisely but they knew how to reap the benefits of wisdom. Its like they were too busy guiding the citizens how to become millionaires rather than first defining what it means to have a million dollars. Would you rather be a millionaire or would you like to know the definition of being a millionaire. So they laid the ground work for the American Nation to get busy making millionaires. So they made the path very clear of how to go from A to Z without telling us what it means to go from A to Z. SO THEY TOLD US WHAT WISE BEHAVIOR WAS AND MADE IT THE LAW OF THE LAND. SO IF YOU WERE WISE OR NOT YOU HAD TO TAKE THE WISE PATH AND THE END RESULT WAS THE REWARDS OF THIS WISE BEHAVIOR FOR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PEOPLE. In fact the wise founders of America laid the foundations of Behavioral Psychology. The most effective and the most practised psychology of America. The American Wisdom way is the most effective, the easiest to follow and the most clear path to achieving wisdom goals.

American wisdom education means its like removing the dirt spots from your curtains by painting over them. Its like the kings of France using perfume instead of taking baths. The results of American wisdom are every where. The financial benefits are huge. The emotional benefits are inadequate. Many Americans have to depend on tranquilizers and phony economic dignity to go through life with a semblance of happiness. American wisdom behavior looks very good. The facade is beautiful. The inside is still unchanged and it still has the attributes of ignorance. However over time wisdom behavior wears off the ingrained emotional intelligence ignorance and Americans do end up being wise faster than the ancients wisdom education.

When the science community has taken the lead from the framers of the constitution and not gone for ultimate answers but just for best possible answers the research results have been spectacular. Take the example of researching water. They did not try to answer the question why water is water, they asked what are the properties of water and how to take advantage of these properties. Look where the water industry is today. We are harnessing the power of the hydrogen cell. Where would the water industry be if we were stuck in researching why water is water is water. We are stuck in the ancient mode when it comes to researching the mind. We are still stuck in the question, 'How consciousness rises from the brain'. Instead of going the same way as researching water and asking our self how best to refine and develop this consciousness; how to extract the maximum benefits out of our consciousness.

I started too with the question, 'How the mind works?' but going nowhere I ashed the question ,'Why the mind works the way it does?' I got so many practical applications from the answers to this new question that I even figured out what wisdom is. Wisdom is the fragrance of the brain and as fragrance is impossible to define so wisdom which is also a fragrance is impossible to define.

The brain gets cooked by the environment it is exposed to. Specially during the natal and post natal stage. It is like if you take a chicken and cook it you start with smelly raw meat. If you are a chef and take the care and add all the right spices, the right amount of heat etc. you get a most tasty dish that gives out a most beautiful aroma. If you don't cook it well the end result can be a burnt or bad tasting chicken with no aroma.

As far as Mother Nature is concerned wisdom is the ultimate destination of every mind. With the right upbringing and education the child can develop his brain from premature(-2) to immature(-1) to mature(+1) to a mind that is super mature (+2). This explains why the ancients saw even young wise people amongst them. These people got to grow and develop their brains in a healthy enviroment.

So my way is that if you want to teach wisdom take care to nurture the brain from the earliest stages by providing the enviroment that eases the transition of the brain to developing into a +2 super mature mind. For those who are already conditioned into -2, -1 and +1 minds I am suggesting deprogramming the brain of -2, -1 and +1 values. And cultivating +2 values.

This easier said than done. Because the brain is very complex and there can be many factors that prevent one from growing wise. It can be defective genes, it can be brain injury of even malnutrition. It is impossible to grow these physically unhealthy minds into wisdom. Even a healthy brain that is stuck at -2 is almost impossible to deprogramme. So my way to wisdom is complicated. However I do define wisdom more precisely. I have a clear plan to introduce wisdom education from Pre-K to 12 and beyond. Clearing the fuzziness about wisdom and creating wisdom textbooks will go a long way to creating perfect(almost) wisdom education.

Perhaps the framers of the constitution knew my way and realized its complications and so they devised the most efficient and the most practical way to reaping the benefits of wisdom and putting the whole country on the path of wisdom.
My wisdom education means changing the very physical brain to project wisdom.

My wisdom education is the most difficult. It involves like changing the badly cooked egg into a raw egg again and then recooking it into a gourmet omelette. But look at the benefits. The brain rises to the ultimate +2 emotionally intelligent level. The person does not have to control his ignorance generated attributes. These attributes don't exist in him anymore. His mind is powered by wisdom. He does not need phony economic dignity to feel happy. He knows and is genuinely happy. His wisdom attributes are a real part of his brain structure. He understands and enjoys every moment as eternity. Ask any billionaire if he wouldn't give up millions for a real authentic life of wisdom.