In this sense, wisdom is identical with liberation because liberation is the transcendence of thought and/or conditioning and/or language. It's transcending the box of social conditioning and becoming "alone with the beating of my heart".
Hence, wisdom/liberation is the REAL birth of a child of the universe. Our physical birth may be the seed inside the nut, but wisdom is what grows the seed into transcendence.
But transcendence of what? Well, actually several things, but supremely transcendence of the pseudo "separate self" which is an alleged duality away from the famous "external world" (both meaningless abstractions). It’s easy to forget that the “outline” of a silhouetted tree is simultaneously the “inline” of the background, and the same is true for the self/world transaction. There is no visible world out there waiting to be looked at, since the visible world is a transaction between specific intervals of the electromagnetic spectrum and complementary optical nervous systems which mutually evoke the visible world. In short the view is the view and the separate self vs. external world duality is a game of the mind.
Also, the ego/personality, separate self is “the thinking about point of view” which presumes to put reality into perspective. Clearly this identity is meaningless since one wonders what from what perspective we “one up” reality (quite a trick!).
All of the above is a whiff, a thumbnail sketch of intuitions which stretch to infinity.
Notice wisdom needs neither religion nor science (which it doesn't discount, but from which it is completly independent). Wisdom existed long before the periodic table and institutional religions -- which are really closet businesses.
That's why is has to do with the unacknowledged and not the unknown, since ultimate realness is where we ALREADY ARE and this means our lives are grounded in that which we may "repress" (collectively or otherwise); however, please note that when you repress something, say death, you have to know what to repress in order to repress it. So it's not just that you are pretending not to know certain things, you have to pretend that you're not pretending. Yes, it's convoluted, but it's all the cloud of delusion. To think otherwise about death for example, is to think that "repressing" death somehow "eliminates" death. In your dreams. Literally.
People have contemplated such things for millennia. At night, many of them looked at the thought-transcending stars (which they saw brilliantly since there was no artificial light) and contemplated the inevitability of death. In short, they "got real" and from this came wisdom.
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