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Though I realize this would be a triumph of hope over experience, but are you finally coming around after all these Zen beatings to not knowing? I know somehow this burst of spiritual excitement cannot last…
Don’t confuse the included “gnosis” here with the ordinary “not knowing”. My hope is that out of all these blogs you, in particular, would come to self-realize what the distinction entails.
To suggest that not knowing is ordinary implies a certain amount of knowing. You of all people should not know this. If you wish to keep knowing it however, instead of freeing yourself from the known, who am I to say otherwise? Heck we hardly know each other. 🙂
“He who knows does not speak, he who speaks (in such fashion) does not know.” 🙂
When it comes to the dark gnosis, my friend, the not-knowing of which you write is quite ordinary indeed.
The next blog-post will be centered around your concern; in fact, it will especially revolve around your notion of not-knowing.
Wait a minute, I think I am understanding your grievance with not knowing. When I say not knowing it’s not cluelessness or total ignorance; it is recognizing the limits of mentation and the mind system itself. What I find interesting — because it seems we have had some crossed signals about this in the past — is that now you are saying the Unborn has no fixed position, which is precisely what I was saying when we discussed this previously and I mentioned that truth is not a static state. As I recall you challenged this (and I may be mistaken, but that is what I remember). Anyway what I think is occuring here is entanglement with terminology and not that we fundamentally disagree. To return to not-knowing I am talking about a posture of renunciation, of surrender, even of turning away from the mind system if you wish to look at it that way. In that sense I do know, as opposed to not-knowing, because the portal of access is something which can be known and experienced. But when I talk about not-knowing, I am talking about the fundamental nature of the absolute, which I still insist cannot be known by mind system. At that point, I cannot call it knowing, it becomes unknowable (i.e. not containable in mind). Knowing is a form of resistance to the absolute, or can be, and that is what I have been trying to communicate. Now before you scout this epistle for doctrinal quibbles, I hope you can at least try to see through to what I am saying, and not get entangled by the form which may differ from your known.
Regarding speaking and knowing, my dog doesn’t speak (in such a fashion) but that doesn’t mean she knows much either. So no platitudes please. If speaking is not knowing this whole blog would be null and void, and I would like to think it is not in the same category as online porn and marketing spam, which occupies 99% of virtual space. Now obviously because this site is so heavily travelled and teeming with Ch’an adepts numbering in the millions, and as we know Ch’an is very popular these days, it is understandable that whatever I have to say might get lost in the hubbub.
And if I may indulge in one more comment on the matter before leaving you in peace, I must warn you, trying to debate the known vs the unknown is a losing proposition. Though you may well be right in supposing some thick-headedness, this is an unprovable position, because I can simply retreat to the unknown, putting the burden of proof upon the affirmative (known). It’s just a judo flip waiting to happen. It is probably a meaningless debate anyway because what I know (_gnosis_) through dhyana cannot be put in words anyway, and I feel beyond this good-natured ribbing, that we are on the same page. I will say I am on the verge of something, I’ve been getting glimpses hard to articulate. But it matters not. I am retreating to my swamp hut and will continue the meditations among the buzzing of carpenter bees.