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What Kind of Wisdom Refuses to Be Held?

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Venerable Juewei
Venerable Juewei

10th August 2025

Prajñāpāramitā is often translated as “perfection of wisdom” or “perfected wisdom.” But it does not behave like perfection. It breaks language. It dissolves the knower. It laughs at certainty. This is not the wisdom of mastery, but of surrender. What is the highest form of supreme wisdom? 

The questions to contemplate are:

  1. What kinds of unseen assumptions, emotional currents, inherited urgencies, institutional culture etc. shape how you move, act, or try to help?
  2. Have you ever experienced a moment when slowing down—pausing, not knowing, letting go—opened up a deeper kind of clarity or care?