Dear Sir,
We have charted a clear path to a better world through an innovative subject that teaches emotional-intelligence/wisdom, but we cannot do it alone. We are theorists or more like scriptwriters who need the production team to make the movie.
Visionaries like HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser are the best hope for education reform in the world. They can help turn our plan into reality and in turn become the chief saviours of the world by making the world wise.
Wisdom is an innate part of the pure self which, in science terms, means a self that is projected by an emotional-baggage-free brain. Thus, wisdom education is emotional-baggage-freeing brain therapy.
The tragedy of man’s tortured history is a direct result of a huge incalculable blunder of misunderstanding wisdom. Since ancient times man has understood wisdom as an independent entity and has tried to acquire it, becoming sincere, loving, respecting and peaceful human beings.
Man has taken for granted that it is wisdom that creates the attributes of wisdom, including selflessness. But we have found that it is selflessness that generates wisdom and its attributes. Mainstream education considers wisdom as the seed and selflessness as the fruit. It is the other way around. Selflessness is the seed that sprouts the roots; grows into a tree and generates the wisdom fruit.
Wisdom is selflessness that is expressed through a unique and complex form of unselfish self-identity. The self feels as part of the whole. The common belief that when one considers oneself as selfless means one considers one’s self as unimportant is wrong. There is a very powerful sense of being when one feels one’s self as selfless!
The self-importance generated by selflessness is more powerful than any self confidence one can have. One’s own self confidence is tempered with the supreme confidence in one and all. Above all selflessness generates the pure self which is the key to a pure life and pure happiness.
Unlike wisdom which is just a cover word for its attributes, selflessness is real. It is a real character trait that can be identified, defined, measured, known, understood, cultivated and taught. It is about time our experts and education policy leaders woke up to the fact that it is selflessness that generates wisdom.
The focus of researching wisdom must shift to researching selflessness and the efforts to develop wisdom education must shift to developing “selflessness education”.
Visionaries like HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser can help start education reform that will drastically reduce depression, drug addiction, crime, mental illness, poverty, tense spousal relationships, divorce, etc. We need peace between groups and countries, we need pure happiness and prosperity and we need super healthy people. The absence of emotionally-challenged brains and the abundance of emotionally-super-mature brains will not only result in achieving these goals; we will be creating into reality a super mature society that our sages of philosophy only dreamed about.
Our 4th R Foundation is a non-profit education research foundation that researches informal/emotional intelligence education, human nature, brain, mind, conscientiousness, self, wisdom, life coaching, adult re-education, shyness, self-image, emotional brain baggage, etc.
Sajid Khan, 4th R Foundation, [email protected]
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