Prajna

Prajna
In Sanskrit, //jñā// can be translated as "consciousness", "knowledge", or "understanding". //Pra// is an intensifier which could be translated as "higher", "greater", or "premium".

//**Prajñā**// ([|Sanskrit]: प्रज्ञा) or //**paññā**// ([|Pāli]) is [|wisdom], understanding, discernment or cognitive acuity. Such wisdom is understood to exist in the universal flux of being and can be intuitively expierenced through [|concentration of the mind]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_in_Buddhism

--in [|Hinduism], means the competence of [|atman] to realize itself for what it is, and so to abide in this state as in a [|dream]less sleep. http://en.mimi.hu/esoteric/prajna.html

The term Prajna used above is very interesting. It is

"the presence in every individual of a faculty... This is the principle which makes Enlightenment possible in us as well as in the Buddha. Without Prajna there could be no enlightenment, which is the highest spiritual power in our possession. The intellect... is relative in its activity... The Buddha before his Enlightenment was an ordinary mortal, and we, ordinary mortals, will be Buddhas the moment our mental eyes open in Enlightenment." - Suzuki, Daisetz Taitaro, //Essays in Zen Buddhism//, pages 52-53. From Intellect to Intuition, p 187