metonymy4u

The cultivation of wisdom is, I think, not difficult to articulate. The basic idea is just this: pay attention, and ask yourself whether what you are doing right now is a path to suffering, or not? In other words, be aware. Do more of the effective and less of the ineffective. All other instructions are just embellishments of this one simple notion. So really, wisdom is not intellectually very difficult. It is, however, physically very difficult to realize. And that’s why I think we need all those embellishments.