Wisdom vs. knowledge

“No man can be taught. Each contains within us Divine Wisdom. Education is when wisdom is drawn out of us. The best teacher is our Higher Self.” – Socrates 

I’ve heard my Jin Shin Jyutsu teachers tell me that Mary Burmeister, who made Jin Shin Jyutsu accessible to the western student, used to start her classes saying “We’re here to unlearn worldly wisdom.” I’ve thought about this pronouncement a lot. I think that what she was getting at was the same as Socrates. We already have the wisdom within us. Learning involves bringing it to the surface rather than gather it from somewhere “out there”. 

In our 5-Day basic seminars a lot of material is covered. I remember in my first class I felt like I was being drowned in a firehose stream of information that I’d never heard before. Yet some of it sparked an awareness inside of me. After a while, the pieces began to fit together and it began to make sense. Jin Shin Jyutsu became something I felt I’d known my entire life. For me, it is the Divine Wisdom that had always been housed within every cell of my body. 

 Now I wonder why I felt so confused. It’s not that I’ve just drunk the Koolaid. What I’d heard on the outside connected to what I already knew deeply on the inside. Connections continue to be made in the spiderweb of knowing contained in my Self. It can be this way for you too.