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- Creating an Integral Culture - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2007 from Copthorne MacdonaldObservers have noted that contemporary society is characterized by three sets of opposing forces: 1. BUSINESS-AS-USUAL forces that want to maintain the existing institutions and ways of doing things. They want to keep the mechanisms of institutional and governmental control pretty much as they ...
Views: 1262 - The Role of Values in Wisdom - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2007 from Copthorne MacdonaldBritish philosopher Nicholas Maxwell has called wisdom "the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others." The embracing of "high" or "superior" values is a hallmark of wisdom. High values have two roles in the lives of wise people. First, they can provide illuminating ...
Views: 1076 - Playing the Wisdom Game - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2007 from Copthorne MacdonaldWhat is wisdom? Like stupidity, we know it when we see it. But because wisdom manifests in so many different ways, it can't be adequately defined in a few words. Short dictionary definitions highlight some of wisdom's characteristics such as "keen discernment," "a capacity for sound judgment," ...
Views: 1101 - Developing Personal Wisdom - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2007 from Copthorne MacdonaldIn the late 1990s there were meetings in Burkina Faso of a "Council of the Wise." This was a group of people from different countries and backgrounds who wanted to foster the development of wisdom in African culture. A useful outcome of these meetings, and a good starting point for this topic, ...
Views: 1200 - Seeing the Nature of Reality Through Buddhist Meditation - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2007 from Copthorne MacdonaldThe perennial philosophy "nondual" spiritual traditions (such as Nisargadatta's Vedanta, and Tibetan Buddhism's Dzogchen) hold that existence involves a monistic, enduring, unchanging, absolute reality and a dualistic, ephemeral, constantly-changing relative reality. Through the practices that I ...
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