Intelligence as defined in Chasidic philosophy is the ability to use your intellect to examine and understand the complexities and details of a issue.
A child becomes angry at insignificant things. The child becomes overwhelmed and is not able to grasp and “contain” the issue angering him. The child cannot break it up into details.
When you have a strong desire or emotion, you can use your intelligence to justify your desire, or to figure out how to achieve your desire.The intellectual approach would be to examine your desire, break it up into details, figure out why you have this desire? What is the benefit to you? will it have a negative affect in the long run? Etc.
Often the intellectual approach will weaken the desire because it is broken into details, thus loosing some of it’s intensity. by examining the negative aspects of your desire it will be Weakened.This will give you the freedom to live your life intellectually objective, not blinded by the temptations of the world around you.
Challenge yourself! Be a intellectual not only when you examine the world around you, but more importantly in the way you live your own life, in the way you respond to your inner struggle.
(KI TISA - ETER)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment