Basic Premises of the Five Wisdoms

Explore the fundamental understandings of the Five Wisdom Energies to help you get unstuck and connect with your natural brilliance and shine.

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Basic Premises of the Five Wisdoms

Adapted from The Five Wisdom Energies by Irini Rockwell.

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The Five Wisdoms are grounded in several fundamental understandings about energy, emotions, and human experience. These principles, adapted from The Five Wisdom Energies, provide a foundation for working skillfully with ourselves and others.

Becoming familiar with the five energies that pervade every aspect of our existence opens the door to a subtler level of being.
Energy is an experience, not something we can understand conceptually.
Through our thoughts and emotions, we experience the energy of our inner world; through our senses—seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching—we experience the outer world.
Energy is neutral. Our attitude toward it determines whether we are open (sane) or closed (confused).
Emotions—whether expressed in their sane or confused aspects—are vivid displays of energy.
Each of us has characteristic energetic styles that intensify when life pushes our buttons.
The point at which our energy becomes negatively intensified is often the best opportunity to work with it because we experience it most vividly.
When our energy remains stuck over time, we experience an imbalance in our psycho-physical being that can contribute to mental and/or physical illness.
Regaining our sense of energetic well-being comes from working directly with energy.
An attitude of unconditional friendliness (maitri) toward whatever arises within us is the catalyst for transforming our energy.
Wisdom energy—the inseparability of confusion and sanity—is spacious and brilliant.
When we manifest our wisdom, we align ourselves with the totality of the five energies and ride the energy of the moment.
When we are in tune with the energies, we experience our connection with everyone and everything through the energetic matrix known as the mandala.
As we learn to work with energetic reality, we can creatively apply this understanding anywhere, anytime, regardless of what we are doing.

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Reflection Question

Which of these foundational principles speaks most directly to your experience right now?

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