The wisdom of wisdom

I am sitting on a massive shard of limestone rock jutting out over the valley 300 metres below. It is 12 February 2012, and we have walked the pilgrim’s trail to the top of Vulture’s Peak near the city of Rajgir in North East India.

This is the place where The Buddha gave his most significant discourses more than 2,500 years ago. Astonishingly, what he taught has much in common with the modern sciences of quantum physics, cosmology, and psychology, particularly on the nature of the interconnectedness of all phenomena. Fundamentally, he maintained that wisdom is the only way to gain freedom from suffering.

Sitting there, on that hot and hazy afternoon, I suddenly felt that my rational scientific training was inadequate to explain my personal experience of The Buddha during our pilgrimage.

Perhaps wisdom is ineffable after all. And yet I believe we must strive to make wiser choices in life, otherwise foolishness prevails.

What do you think?