Four Domains of Knowing

Wisdom is perspectival knowing. It is the capacity to inhabit an integrated, well-fitted, and comprehensive orientation to reality, discerning what is salient and how it matters within the whole.

Experience is participatory knowing. It is direct, lived involvement in which the experiencer and what is experienced co-shape one another.

Knowledge, in its strict sense, is propositional knowing. It is expressed in claims and concepts that articulate what is the case and provide the basis for organizing our understanding of reality.

Skill is procedural knowing. It is the embodied mastery of how to act, cultivated through practice and expressed in fluent, context-sensitive performance.

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Dr. Jay Forrest

Jay N. Forrest (D.Min.) is a Deistic Buddhist philosopher trained in Zen and Vipassanā, with advanced Buddhist studies at Harvard, Princeton, UVA, Naropa, Columbia, and Universiteit Leiden. He is a certified meditation teacher and the author of over a dozen books on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice.