How Does One Develop Wisdom?

Having understood that Wisdom means Insight Knowledge endowed with virtue, students continue by studying the objects of Insight Wisdom: the Five Aggregates (Khanda), Sense doors (Ayatana), Elements (Dhatu), Sense-faculties (Indriya), Truth (Sacca) and Dependent Origination (Paticcasamuppada). Having already developed Purity of Conduct (Training in Higher Morality) and Purity of Mind (Training in Higher Mentality), which are both the cause and foundation of Insight Wisdom, one continues to practice Insight Meditation to develop five more purifications: Purity of View, Purity of Transcending Doubts, Purity of Knowledge and Vision of What Is Path and What Is Not path, Purity of Knowledge and Vision of the Course of Practice and Purity of Knowledge and Vision. Together, these are the seven stages of purity.