The Intellectual and the Wise

An intellectual circles around and around to prove a premise hidden in the emotional middle brain.

The intellectual is very skilled at hiding the "emotional" origins of the premise, not only from others, but even from himself, by using logical arguments of the upper brain.

The premise invariably is rooted in some small-self identity of the intellectual (i.e., American, conservative, liberal, etc.).

But how long can one move in circles? Five years, ten years, fifty years? Whole life?

A wise person quits circling around, and moves inward, towards the very center of the circle, right into the middle brain.

The wise one sees the small self.

In that seeing both the small self and the premise lose their grip.

Meditation is seeing directly into one's middle brain, with a silent upper brain. It is the journey of a small self into the big self, a transformation of the intellectual into the wise.