Physical Beauty Vs. Wisdom

Physical Beauty Vs. Wisdom

Without compassion and intelligence the world has no purpose. Our way of life is built on Intelligence & Wisdom. Compassion brings out our desire to protect and build further. Intelligence tells us how we can save the planet, why it is  worth saving and what is the meaning of each and every action; for instance flying in a plane generates carbon dioxide (CO2), burning wood generates CO2, cutting a tree depletes the oxygen- if we did not have the intelligence, we would not know it, and we would have destroyed the planet long ago. Just having the intelligence does not help you either, because it does not mean that you are going to save the planet and the world would have a purpose. Only if you have compassion along with that information, now you can do the right thing for this world. You need to have the knowledge and compassion, without the knowledge compassion won’t address anything.  Everything that we do today has been built with intelligence: we have microwaves, we have  stoves, TVs and smartphones; we are not burning wood and running around the forest. Why do we have a house? Because we were able to do farming, we were able to raise animals and food and all the other things that we need, so we would not have to run around like nomads. The way we live today is because of the intelligence we built over the last 300,000 years.               “A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone;...