experiencing the unknown/Pat

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> > One can experience the unknown as the unknown.

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> > toombaru

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> D: Yes -- and one's experience now is unknown - and one is this

> unknown,

> knowing.

 

P: The unknown that sees itself as the unknown knowing, is not

the real unknown.

 

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> We generally think of knowing as a memory-based process.

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> But memory is only an aspect of knowing, and memory doesn't have any

> privileged position (i.e., memory doesn't encapsulate actual events

> and things that exist outside of memory).

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> There is just this undivided knowing, which is therefore unsegmented

> in terms of time (past, present, future) and position (knower and

> known, experiencer and experience)

 

P: It was memory who wrote all that above, you are memory fooling

itself

with the notion of being the unknown. No one speaks from beyond

the door, as Gene said: You might have gone beyond the door, but

when you speak, you speak from the antechamber. In other words,

only memory speaks.