(forw) [ANetofJewels] The Art of Knowing

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[ANetofJewels] The Art of Knowing

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:30:35 -0000

 

In the spiritual context there are lots of words used like Knowing,

Perception, Awareness, Insight, Listening, Observation and many more.

 

I would like to get in touch with the details of what is this Knowing

all about. Is there a Knowing, which is not from the barrier of

Knowledge? Knowing and experiencing are all together different

actions?

 

For a Layman in the society, which he has been molded for centuries,

Learning is something that is derived from the books or by practicing

something means to acquire skills, we go to Schools, Universities,

and Technical institutions, Religious centers and try to acquire as

much of Knowledge as we can.

 

For centuries this way of learning has been forced from childhood,

which is Knowledge is Power. One feels that If I know All, If I

become the master of the particular field so the power, the world

which falls for him, One gains the Power of being superior

economically and socially. Well this Sort of Knowledge is useful,

this sort of gathering information. Acquiring skills has its own

limitations, which lacks the totality of human life.

 

Man has been using the mind for centuries to store the information,

acquisition of the skills and training the mind to perform some

tasks. Mind has lost its original capacity to observe anything

without a barrier, without any method so very few of us realize a

simple mind has its own intelligence and there is a knowing which is

not by any method or system.

>From olden days we have been inventing so many meditations and

tantras to sense this original state of knowing. A system or method

can never ever bring this Knowing.

 

A method is Garbage cleaner, a vaccine but we have been thinking, a

method is a meditation. So a Real state of meditation is the state of

Knowing. It is the natural quality of mind. Tranquility and

observation is the natural state of mind. But for some reasons we

human beings are conditioned so much toward systems. It is simply we

think that following and Knowing is the same.

 

When Ones mind has been conditioned and it becomes the habit of us

that we need a method without it one struggles. He needs Judgments,

so the mind has no more capacity of knowing what is right. We come to

know by listening or reading that we have been conditioned, then we

try to remove this conditioning by means of any guru or teaching.

Which again shows that Ones own mind is not aware of its own

conditioning.

 

Unless one knows that his mind has been conditioned in such way, In

his behaviors, in his traditions, in his activities, in his emotions,

there is no way of breaking these conditions. But we believe in

something or the other will easily allow the mind to enter in to some

other conditions like religious titles like am a Christian, Hindu,

Buddhist and so on. Can one know how one's mind is conditioned, and

not to enter in to further conditions?

 

 

If one can do this, one has returned to the intelligence of his own,

the very natural way of thinking and the Original innocent state of

mind. From here one has the capacity to know or experience what

exactly "IS". So Observer and the Observed is one in its very

essence. So there is a communication. One actually listens, learns

not in directions but to the original and natural capacity of the

mind. Where there is no direction or time exists there is only

existence. There is no Observer and observed but the Observation.

 

If one touches this ground, the common and not influenced by any

human made ideas, then one Knows what `IS" and One witness

the Truth.

Where there is no division between knowing and action. It is living.

It is the state of Meditation.

 

I know, You Know and every one can know but no one can give it to the

other what we know

 

As Rumi says Truth is like perfume. No one can own its fragrance but

any one can enjoy it.

 

Regards

 

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