The Wisdom of the Manas

In relationships between people, sincere communication is the genuineness of the manas, while falseness and perfunctoriness are the disguise of the mind consciousness. What is called "tacit understanding" refers to the coordinated cooperation between manas—without speaking, without expressing anything, one glance and the hearts connect. When the manas of two people can cooperate with tacit understanding, it shows that both are intelligent and that they understand each other. Conversely, no matter how the mind consciousness expresses and explains things with words, if the other person still does not understand, it shows that the person is dull. Therefore, true intelligence and wisdom must refer to the manas; great wisdom, great courage, and great strategy must all refer to the manas. Only petty cleverness is the cleverness of the mind consciousness, which fails at critical moments.

Whether a person possesses great wisdom, with both high emotional intelligence and high intelligence, must refer to the manas, not the mind consciousness. The mind consciousness only engages in scheming, which becomes useless when the environment or circumstances change, and especially useless at critical, life-and-death moments. Those with great wisdom generally speak little and prefer silence—the manas is just like that, deep and wordless. Only people of petty cleverness like to show themselves off and play tricks and schemes, which corresponds to the mind consciousness.