Why wisdom is so hard to acquire.

And how wisdom can be acquired.

Mother Nature(MN) gives us nothing except by deserving her bounties. She makes us earn the right to all good things in life. Staring with the sperm race we get the gift of life, the gift of time only when we ourself win this race. Only when we follow her rules do we get onto the road to wisdom. Only when each individual brings up his child according to MN's rules does the individual get blessed with a child that is well on way to the road to wisdom. In the case of wisdom it is the parent who has to follow the rules to make the child deserve wisdom. A significant section does bring up their children on the laws of MN*. However most people prevent this bounty from their children because we still don't quite understand what wisdom is.

So lets understand the nature of wisdom. Wisdom is an innate component of the human mind/nature that is like a natural urge that is almost alive and is certainly a force that wants to bloom and float its fragrance around and power the mind. Wisdom ability is as innate as our ability to acquire language skills. And just like language skills it is easier to acquire wisdom from an early age. Consider why a second language is hard for an adult.

When the child is being exposed to two or even three languages at the same time he is trying to comprehend say for instance the world house. In his mind he has no image of a house so he has no word that is associated with the house's image. When he is told that this image is represented by these two/three different words(all meanings representing house in different languages) there is no word in his mind that is associated with the house image. So the mind readily associates all two/three words with the house image. Its like an empty mansion(the huge brain capacity) is being occupied by three families.(Remember the human brain at childhood is 100% itching to be exercised unfortunately we let our brains capacity wither away). The potential glass of life(the capacity of the mind) is huge at this stage, it can turn wise or ignorant or a mixture as it is pure and the strongest at this stage.

Suppose you are 40 years old and English is your language. You want to learn French you will have to learn it by cramming each word (Of course there are now some natural learning methods out there) as say for instance you want to learn the French word for house. As soon as you try to put the French equivalent word in your memory/mind your English version word 'house' is well entrenched there. So it will take your mind much effort to accept the word house as it is called by its French name/word. As the whole English language pattern is well entrenched in the mind so putting in a new language pattern becomes very hard. Similarly as we grow older and our parents bring us up on a mixture of wisdom and ignorance it is this mixture that gets well entrenched in the minds. So even when in later age we try to put wisdom( We unfortunately still don't know wisdom exactly, so we try to put its attributes in our mind one by one). in our minds it is very difficult as the hodge podge of wisdom and ignorance is well entrenched in a mind that is at this age of 40 years more atropied then when the person was a child. Its like the mind at this stage is a bed sheet. It is full of germs(ignorance) and dirty spots(self image). So not only has the bed sheet got to be washed the germs have to be removed. At this age life's glass potential has already shrunk considerably. Also at this stage it's like the mansion has shrunk into a much smaller house(most people use only 10% of the brain the rest 90% gets atrophied by non use and disuse). And on top of the house being smaller at this age it is also occupied by ignorance.

The way we currently teach wisdom we try to teach its qualities like love, grace, respect, responsibility etc. We don't at all take into account the fact that trophy self image, greed, jealousy etc. is already well entrenched into the brain structure. Not only is ignorance well entrenched it has physically changed the brain and this ignorance is backed up by electrochemical and emotional currents in the brain. The way we teach the attributes of wisdom we kind of give sermons on the goodness of love etc and show how love does the person good. The person has this knowledge of good and evil but he still does not get it. He still does not understand as his brain is steeped in ignorance for so long that the brains ignorance is it's second nature. Ignorance becomes an innate part of the brain's emotional intelligence structure.

Again the way we teach wisdom today we kind of persuade the person to become loving by showing him the benefits of love. Even if the person himself wants to become wise and he does get persuaded to become wise he still has to deprogram his mind of ignorance.Try removing the stains and germs from a dirty bed sheet by persuasion or by wishing. You have to physically dry clean the bed sheet. In the same way wisdom education means cleaning the brain of the ignorance infrastructure that is well entrenched there and is it's second nature.

Fortunately wisdom education is not as hard as it looks. The first step is to know what wisdom is. It is the fragrance that comes into existence when the brain develops through wisdom upbringing and wisdom education into a +2 super mature emotional intelligence mind.

The second step is to ensure that every parent, every teacher, every mentor must know how to bring up every child in order to ensure wisdom education. In fact nobody at any level should be allowed to go through life without understanding the learning process that his human nature has to go through.

So having lost the wisdom bandwagon one must focus on deprogramming the mind of ignorance and reprogramming the mind with wisdom.

*It is the very nature of wisdom that wise people are humble and they don't even recognize their own wisdom because they see themselves as not knowing enough. They feel humbled by the amount of knowledge out there which they don't know. And the classical image of a wise man is that he has all the answers and they know that they don't have all the answers. So they do not consider themselves as wise.