The Blue Sweater Post 2

As Jacqueline's prepares for her philanthropy workshops, she makes a trip to Cambodia to meet a Buddhist monk name Maha Ghosananda. Jacqueline values the work that he has done and wants to learn more about it so that she can share it with the world. Through their conversation, Jacqueline is trying to understand the answers that Maha is giving her, but she is slightly confused. Near the end of their conversation Maha tells her, "If you move through the world only with your intellect then you walk on only one leg. If you move through the world only with your compassion then you walk on only one leg. But if you move through the world with both intellect and compassion, then you have wisdom." If found this quote to be quite interesting because it shares the idea that a person cannot only be intellectual to have wisdom, but we also have to show others compassion. Both ideas go hand in hand and generally reveals to us that having wisdom is not based on how smart you are. I think that this quote is very meaningful and illustrates an approach that people should take on. Moreover, with this new point of view, Jacqueline is able to get a better understanding of how to run her philanthropy workshops.