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A friend told me the other day about an insight she had in which she realized she could not really know anything. This is very true. We use knowledge as though it is reality, but it can never be what Is.
On this web site, knowledge is used in every essay. The words are just words, which are a part of knowledge, but what is aimed at is the reality between the words and before knowledge.
If we could just drop all knowledge and see directly what is before us, we would understand life. Not 'know' life, but understand it, which is to become it.
Seeing what is taking place, both within and without, is being the very Suchness of what Is. We have an experience and then remember it, turning the real into a lie. Knowledge is always in time. It is history and history cannot be Life Itself.
All of our gods, beliefs, nationality, race, family history, and every other thing in our lives are knowledge.
When I was a young child and I would really look at the people around me, I did not know who they were. Not even my parents. The brain had to backup some, become a little dull to enter knowledge and know who they were. In school if the teacher would write something on the blackboard and ask us to pay attention, the mind would just see the contrast of white and black. There was no knowledge at all. This made it very difficult to do the schoolwork and the teachers thought I was just lazy or unintelligent. Needless to say, I failed in all of my early years of schooling. However, I learned something more important. I learned how to see past knowledge and into the heart of whatever it was that attention was drawn to. This in time brought real freedom.
We can only really see something for the first time. The second time we see it through our knowledge of it, which is to dull it over with ideas. We say we know this or that person, but we do not. We know some history about that person, but the person is always changing. If we hold a person to be a certain way, based on our history of them, we will lose sight of the wonder of what is taking place as that being. By us being out of sync with the reality of another, it can lead to conflict.
We fall in love with someone and we think it will last forever. Then in time that love begins to fade. It fades because of our knowledge of that person. We are no longer seeing the person directly. We see the history, with all the little pains and misunderstandings. We have taken a living being and turned them into time, history.
We need to use knowledge to get things done in the world. To build anything, to carry out our daily life we need to use knowledge, but we also need to understand the limits of knowledge. Let it take its place as a useful tool. Do not let it run our lives.
As I said above, there is knowledge being used in all that is written on this website. It is not the truth of the words that has meaning, but the reality that they arise from. It is hoped that the readers will sense that this is only a pointing to Reality. Words will not take you there and words cannot express what is real. Just read, feel and let go. You are already Reality.
Love is not in time. It is directly in this moment. Life is not in time. We cannot know life. For Life to be, we must be completely present with it. Only then can we understand what is prior to all history, all ideas, and, all conditioning. When we realize we can never really know anything, then a state of poise, a quietness of the Heart, comes upon us, as us. In the deeper levels of this insight we are lost. There is just What Is. No matter what it is, it is okay; we are at peace. We are the One Being. And that Beingness needs no story, no history and is beyond all conditioning.
Melvyn Wartella |
