One Apple A Day #680 - about wisdom
My grandfather knew when it was the right day to prune the vines. He always knew when it was the right night to go out fishing for eels. He couldn't really explain how he knew it, but he did.
My grandmother knew how to make a perfect traditional cake. Many people from the village used to bring her the ingredients and she never disappointed, no matter how different the flour or the eggs were. Though, she didn't know the recipe. When we manage to elicit a structured formula from her, the results weren't as good.
Yesterday evening a dear friend told me about his great grandfather. He was the man everyone called to get fruitful grafts on the vineyards. Throughout his career, he kept a daily log with all his weather observations. But what made him successful was his ability to retrieve the right information from his yearslong almanack and know the most propitious moment to make a successful graft. He couldn't explain how he knew, but he did.
They all knew without knowing. Each one of them knew, deep in their own essence, how to read the invisible signs of the universe.
That is wisdom to me. The subjective knowing beyond the objective knowledge.
Unfortunately, the subjective knowing can't be modelled or structured, and so it cannot be taught. You can only acquire it through observation and experience. It takes time, discipline and awareness. And the willingness to detach from the outcome.