Wise or Intelligent?

We think that our thoughts and emotions are a reality, so we drift into it, and get trapped into suffering without benefits. We pursue our various desires without being critical and reflective, which ultimately leads to disappointment. The ability to manage yourself is very important in our daily lives.

Third, spiritual intelligence also requires awareness. That is, awareness is the ability to live from moment to moment with full attention to all thoughts, the arising of desires and desires that arise. Thus, we can act with full awareness. Anger and crackdown are also carried out with full awareness, if indeed awareness is needed for that.

Many people cannot do this. They do all that without awareness and attention, so it is very dangerous, ranging from hurting others to destroying nature. After that, regret and resolution filled their minds. Awareness and attention are very important in forming spiritual intelligence.

Fourth, spiritual intelligence get rid of egos, and invites others to be able to overcome their interests. Our lives will be directed at the interests of all beings, and not just focus on personal pleasure or glory. This is probably the most difficult thing to do. We need to look at everything from the perspective of our interests. The interests of others, the more interests of nature, we prefer to ignore, even we sacrifice. Greed is the driving force without awareness. Evil and manipulative attitude is something that is reasonable to do. This has a very strong destructive power, not only the quality of people's lives, but also the quality of personal lives of those around them.

If we can look more deeply, it turns out that spiritual intelligence is the most important intelligence that humans can have. We can have logical-mathematical intelligence or artistic-aesthetic intelligence. However, if we do not have spiritual intelligence, then the intelligence we have can slip into self-destruction as well as living together. Actually, human life can be wiser, safer and more peaceful, if only this spiritual intelligence becomes the commander and determinant of attitudes, behavior and habits of daily life. Wallahu A'lamu Bishshawwab.

Bekasi, November 10, 2019.