BOTH BUDDHA and Jesus showed us that the surest way to propagate wisdom is to embody it. God embodied in human form, in the case of Christianity. And in the case of Buddhism, realizing through contemplation and meditation that the ultimate seat of intelligence is not some lofty conceptual fabrication.
Wisdom is more in the body, and the mind is more in the heart, less a cloudy vision and more like flesh and blood. Different approaches, to be sure, but they come together on this point: the surest way to propagate wisdom is to embody it. You can teach it and you can preach it, the prophets say, but your actions will always speak louder than your words. Wisdom isn't something you believe in. That's too easy. Wisdom is something you become.
Wisdom is more in the body, and the mind is more in the heart, less a cloudy vision and more like flesh and blood. Different approaches, to be sure, but they come together on this point: the surest way to propagate wisdom is to embody it. You can teach it and you can preach it, the prophets say, but your actions will always speak louder than your words. Wisdom isn't something you believe in. That's too easy. Wisdom is something you become.