From Practice, Path, Goal

As for Wisdom, we are fortunate to have such a rich array of traditions to draw from, and so many sages to guide us. Despite my high regard for Lao Ze’s wise admonition that “Those who know, do not speak./ Those who speak, do not know,” my own sense of the Wisdom that might guide us in these end times should be apparent from the many words I have already shared in these pages.

It is a Wisdom of wholeness that embraces brokenness, of the infinite that overarches the finite, of eternity which, as Blake puts it, “is in love with the productions of time.” It is a Wisdom grounded in the intuition of the Whole or the Absolute as complexio oppositorum (Cusa, Jung), as the “identity of identity and non-identity” (Hegel), the “union of union and disunion” (Morin), as “multeity in unity” (Coleridge), the cosmic Logos made flesh, “the realization of Buddhahood by grasses and trees” (somoku jobutsu), and the insight that “Form does not differ from Emptiness/And Emptiness does not differ from Form” (Heart Sutra).

Sean Kelly in Becoming Gaia