prajñā as before thinking
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also prajñā as experience before interpretation · prajñā as wisdom before thought · state before thinking · pre-conceptual wisdom · prajñā jako stav před myšlením CZ
Summary
Prajñā is made of pra, before, and jñā, knowledge or thinking, the same as the Greek gnosis: so prajñā means before thinking. It is an intuitive, pre-conceptual wisdom, what we experience before we interpret and discriminate the world in front of us. Mike calls it the natural state of living beings when they don't separate their mental area from their physical area, and adds that prajñā is only a word, a concept he uses to describe something that happens before thinking.
Part of ↑ prajñā
Includes ↓ prajñā as only a word ↓ prajñā as the natural state ↓ prajñā in a modern sense ↓ pre-conceptual experience ↓ realising and knowing
Main theme
Pra means before, and jnana means intellectual thinking. So prajñā means before intellectual thinking.
1Prajñā: The State Before Thinking May 2014 — Banský Studenec
So prajñā means before thinking, or before knowledge
2The Buddhist View of Living Itself February 2009 — Cholín
jñā is the same as gnosis in Greek. So: before knowledge, or before thinking
3Three Teachings from Japan September 2013 — Banský Studenec
pra means before and jñā means thought or thinking. So pra-jñā: before thinking
4Prajñā: Deciding Before Thinking July 2021 — Skalní fara
before we start to discriminate the world in front of us we have a pre-conceptual wisdom
5Shoaku Makusa 1: Not Doing Wrong Here and Now Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusa
Developed
So prajñā means before thought. In Buddhism, wisdom is something intuitive, before we think.
6The Eight Truths of a Great Person June 2006 — Padmafarma
it actually means what we experience before we interpret the world — pre-thinking
7Ikka-no-myoju 2: Undivided Reality Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myoju
Mention
This sutra is about real wisdom, or intuitive reflection.
8Introductions 1: Rules and Reality Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters
Also in the narrower keywords
prajñā as the natural state +1 text
the state which is different from thinking is our basic state. Everybody has it.
Intuition Covered by Thinking August 2012 — Dibbavana
prajñā in a modern sense +1 text
maybe we can say something happens before our conscious thinking, then we are trying to understand it in a modern sense
Just to Be Alive Is Enough August 2011 — Dibbavana
pre-conceptual experience +1 text
What Master Dogen is trying to do is to describe that essential experience before we start thinking
Uji 2: An Alternative to Linear Time Winter 2004 — Uji
realising and knowing +1 text
a realisation and knowing that is something total and is here and now and is not intellectual
Bussho 3: Beyond the Process View Summer 2004 — Bussho