The wise
“paṇḍita”
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the wise · the highest [in understanding] · this the wise declare · wise one
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
A recurring figure of discernment contrasted with 'fools': the one whose wisdom allows him to turn poison, passion, and defilement into the means of liberation rather than bondage.
but those of highest understanding, knowing the [true] nature of form, are liberated.
— just as water [is drawn] from the ear by water alone, and a thorn by a thorn alone, so the wise draw out passion by passion itself.
Just as a wise swan drinks the milk poured into water [leaving the water behind], so the wise one, having enjoyed sense-objects ({{term:
Manusmṛti
An unnamed collective of sages/authorities credited with declaring the folk-etymology of meat.
54 // 'Me he' (`māṃ saḥ`) will devour in the next world, whose flesh I eat here—this the wise declare to be the `māṃsa`-ness of meat.