Self Help Wisdom Answers

What is wisdom? What is wise and unwise? We all look for the answers about how to live a successful and happy life. What is the meaning of our life? What should we do while here? This is a completely normal and natural quest.

There is, however, some words of wisdom that you might want to consider. And here it is: There is no Answer to Life!

We spend our lives looking for the answer. You know, the answer that will make us happy, whole, satisfied, successful. So we find an answer, like one the Buddha gave us. He said grasping is at the root of all suffering. So we then work hard to conquer desire and grasping in our lives.

It is then human nature to make detachment and non-grasping the answer to all life's problems. But it doesn't work in that way. They are the not the entire answer to life. There are just partial answers.

Not understanding this, you can spend months trying to overcome desire and grasping within yourself. You will grasp after not grasping! Then, when you finally figure out that that doesn't work, you will give that up. "I guess that Buddha didn't have the answer after all..." Then you will start looking all around for another answer.

This pattern occurs over and over in our lives. We think love is the answer. Or spirituality. Or financial success. Then we work hard to have more love or holiness or money in our lives. Only to find it doesn't end up making us live happily ever after.

Here is a useful wisdom secret. All answers are only partial truths. Any answer can not be the whole truth. So if you feel strongly that being more loving is your answer, good! Go to work on that for a while. But just don't expect love to solve everything. It won't! And don't burden love with that expectation!

So understand this. Any answer you find to living happily ever after will only be temporary. Partial. Not the whole thing. That's because life doesn't need to be solved or answered. Start to be okay with living in the question. Start to be okay not knowing or even needing an answer. There's more to this, but this can be a good beginning.

Remember, wisdom can be defined as connecting insight with behavior to promote wellbeing. Sometimes you may see two people arguing and have the insight that it's getting nowhere, so you then do the behavior of stepping in and stopping the argument. Other times you may see two kids fighting and have the insight they need to define boundaries so you then do the behavior of taking no action, letting them fight.

Wisdom isn't about taking action or not, it's about knowing when to do either. Running around doing lots of things may or may not be wise. Keeping busy can keep you from doing what is most important. It can keep you from inner peace and harmony, which is not wise. On the other hand, sitting around thinking empowering thoughts without taking any action is also unwise.

And running around looking for the answers to life can mislead you. The ego wants to believe there is an answer out there that will solve everything, but it isn't true.

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