CLARITY AND ALL THAT
Prajna is one of those terms that holds a fascination for me. It’s what Buddhists call the clarity that comes from seeing the way things are. (If you can see what-is, it’s likely that you’ll be able to act more appropriately, they say.) It is, I suppose, another way of Un-Seeing.
Prajna encompasses discernment and discrimination, insight, wisdom and enlightenment, all of which are very big words with lots of layers of meaning in them. I’ve gnawed on it for a long time now, and am still trying to get a handle on it. It’s an ongoing process.
Yeah, yeah…I know. Slow learner. But, for real, reaching for clarity has been a puzzlement for people wiser than me through the ages. …
