Here's my experience of
the steps toward the highest form of wisdom - data information knowledge
intelligence understanding perception wisdom intuition. Data may be
first, but it's also least.
In my experience growing up in parochial schools, from kindergarten through college, the emphasis was on learning as much data as possible. There was no space on any curriculum for meditation, not even as an elective.
I think of what a difference developing meditation practices can make in every aspect of a person's life, including the home. I don't understand how any religion can teach the edict of the God of the Old Testament to "Be still & know..." and NOT recognize the importance of meditation, of finding stillness in the midst of whatever is around us, in developing a genuinely spiritual life.
Seems the religion I was born into & embraced throughout my life is another aspect of inverted life practices. The very things that were taught throughout the Old & New Testaments & in the Writings are the same that are shuffed aside in the teaching of them. Even to this day, my church spotlights learning & relearning points of doctrine & ignores the essential value of finding stillness in the midst of life's clutter. And so many American Christians seem to have totally forgotten that Jesus fed the multitudes without payment & gave life-saving free health care. They could do with a little stillness in their lives, a little reflection on what was revealed v. what they teach.
Data information knowledge intelligence understanding perception wisdom intuition. Our tech age takes unimaginable strides expanding the first three. Many people ace the next two. But the final three, especially the last?
In my experience growing up in parochial schools, from kindergarten through college, the emphasis was on learning as much data as possible. There was no space on any curriculum for meditation, not even as an elective.
I think of what a difference developing meditation practices can make in every aspect of a person's life, including the home. I don't understand how any religion can teach the edict of the God of the Old Testament to "Be still & know..." and NOT recognize the importance of meditation, of finding stillness in the midst of whatever is around us, in developing a genuinely spiritual life.
Seems the religion I was born into & embraced throughout my life is another aspect of inverted life practices. The very things that were taught throughout the Old & New Testaments & in the Writings are the same that are shuffed aside in the teaching of them. Even to this day, my church spotlights learning & relearning points of doctrine & ignores the essential value of finding stillness in the midst of life's clutter. And so many American Christians seem to have totally forgotten that Jesus fed the multitudes without payment & gave life-saving free health care. They could do with a little stillness in their lives, a little reflection on what was revealed v. what they teach.
Data information knowledge intelligence understanding perception wisdom intuition. Our tech age takes unimaginable strides expanding the first three. Many people ace the next two. But the final three, especially the last?
(cross-posted from secretsofthehome.blogspot.com)
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