Author: pietoma

Introduction As we well know, Homo Sapiens is a social life form. Like their immediate predecessors, the great apes, our ancestors lived as extended family groups. However, between them and apes (with the sole exception of bonobos) has been a fundamental difference.  While the extended families of humans were matrilineal, the groups of apes were […]

Introduction That topic was already presented on Vision page while the more detailed description in several video-talks in the category Structure and economy. However, I decided to return to it for two reasons. First concerns the form. After learning more about what attracts visitors to this site, I realized that the textual form combined with […]

Introduction In the preceding chapter, there is presented the basic form of group Wisdom practice.  It is helpful to apply it also in our individual lives in many ways. It adds to our personal practice more confidence by witnessing that we are not isolated, but others have similar experiences. It could be further expanded by […]

Introduction Until now, we discussed practices of rediscovering our wisdom by individuals. It is instrumental in order to improve the quality of our lives and, by doing that, help the society at large. However, its impact on the current, increasingly dangerous world situation is limited. Even if many of us would incorporate wisdom into our […]

Introduction The last attitude of the six suggested for wisdom living was called Discernment and humour. However, the topic of humour was mentioned there, more or less in passing. Now we will discuss it in more depth together with its opposite: the attitude of seriousness. Seriousness etymologically comes from the Latin serious and means: heavy, […]

Introduction The virus is the smallest life form, though some scientist disagrees with calling it “life form” because it cannot multiply on its own. However,  others say that it is because the virus has its own genome, which is passed to the newly emerging generation. To multiply, the virus injects its genome into a cell, […]

Introduction  This Hamlet-like dilemma presented in the title refers not to the imaginary Denmark kingdom but our modern capitalistic reality. I begin with ta question:  is the capitalistic system in which we live, the same as it was during the time Marks and Engels, and even later on during the Bolsheviks revolution? The answer is: […]

Introduction Communication between lifeforms is as old as life itself. For the most simple, monocellular organisms, the medium of communication was sending and receiving of specific molecules which carry important information. They also used some form of what we will now call touch. In general, the interactive communication preceded by billions of years the development […]

Introduction When in 1964, a visionary Canadian philosopher  Marshal McLuhan coined the phrase „The Medium is the Message,” most doubly he envisioned how prophetic he was. 1964 nobody, in the wildest dreams, could expect that only 50 later the Internet will penetrate every corner of our world. In 1964 the only mass medium was cinemas, […]

Introduction The attitude of Discernment and humour corresponds to the six and last paramita called in Sanskrit prajna, usually translated as knowledge, wisdom or intelligence. So why we call it discernment, which is not an ability characteristic only to humans but to all living organisms? Even the most simple ones, like bacteria, can distinguish what […]

Introduction This chapter presents a version of the fifth paramita, called in Sanskrit dhyana, which is usually translated as meditation or mindfulness. However, in the context of Wisdom Living, here we do not separate the practice of meditation from everyday life,  as it is sometimes done in Mahayana. The primary purpose is the attitude of […]

Introduction This chapter is dedicated to the forth attitude of Wisdom Living, which I decided to call Joy of Action. The original Buddhist name in Sanskrit of the corresponding paramita is virya, which usually is translated as effort. However, that term often invokes association with enforced work, tediousness, something we try to avoid, which we […]

Introduction The next attitude which assists in wisdom training is patience. It is adapted from the paramita called kshanti in Sanskrit, which means endurance or patience. In the context of wisdom training,  the attitude of patience means that we continue whatever we decided to do until we finished it, or we decided that further continuation […]

Introduction After discussing the attitude of Openness, we may notice that by itself, though significantly important, leaves too much space for being misinterpreted. It needs some form to make it more successful and useful. Perhaps for that reason or, maybe independently, there was introduced the next paramita called in Sanskrit shila, which was usually translated […]

Introduction Before we continue the subject of integration of Wisdom Training into our everyday life, I decided to discuss our attitudes to which we adhere. In the last chapter, I already talked about the necessity of the attitude of treating common household tasks as opportunities rather than chores. But the subject is much wider than […]