NOT KNOWING, AND THE EASE IN BEING.

Note: It’s a ‘fools errand’ to put into symbolic words that which is beyond them and cannot be known by limited body/mind but only in a profound wordless silence..still, these inner pointers seem to arise, and you too may enjoy (and perhaps share) the taste of one’s common being that they suggest. 🙂

~ One of the main daily encounters in aware living is, it seems, a strange and provocative, constantly new way of being; one moves in endless mystery, in a subtle ‘not knowing’ but no longer needing to know. That ‘constant letting go’ of mind’s stirring little angers, opinions and assorted pleasures and pains feels delicate, awkward and variously unsettling for a while. There’s an effortless ongoing seeing/surrendering of many if not all 😉 body/mind habits and defenses. Oddly, one comes to realize there’s no psychological fears and desires anymore that formerly drove personal experience and conflict.

Naturally, in reality, anything can and may and will, happen, but one lives kinda like a pilot without a flight plan, attending closely to the wind as it’s actually blowing. And enjoying the beauty of it all! There’s little or no contention, and actions (not reactions) tend to occur appropriately more and more as one simply adjusts to following the flow, living in the unknown, without much of an agenda or expectations. There’s harmony and real beauty in that, yes.

In sum, there’s a living understanding – a freedom from conditioned ‘knowledge’, that’s rooted in recognizing that one is without knowing what one is. It arises in and from the direct realization that, in non-personal fact, one does not exist as a ‘me’ – and really never did 😉 This deep not-knowing is the door to simply, openly, being and constantly, timelessly, freshly, discovering ‘what is’. It’s a lived innocence (not ignorance) that presents as a curious wonder and delight. In fine, not-knowing is the key to sensitive, gracious and surprisingly inspired aware living.
Love, loving it all, yes. 🙂

~ “When you ask a deep question that doesn’t have an answer and it backs you into a space of “I don’t know,” the practice is to stop there and feel what that feels like. Don’t run. You’ll find stillness. It’s from that place that there is a possibility of having access to something beyond your conscious mind. ~ Adyashanti
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“So all the mystics of all traditions, that I know and love anyway, speak to the transformational power of not knowing. I think that’s intimately connected with silence. There’s a higher truth that is only present, it seems, when we let all of the concepts go, and allow ourselves to know nothing. It’s a vulnerable state, it’s a state of spiritual nakedness, it’s not for the faint of heart. — Mirabai Starr
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“We ask a question like, “Who am I?” and realize, “Gee, I don’t really know.” Inquiry is meant to put us into that state of not knowing. It’s meant to remove all the ways we fake knowing. We don’t have the problem of knowing too little—we know too much. We know what we should be like, what we should be doing, what we should be thinking and feeling. And, by the way, I know what you should be doing and I know the way the world should be too. This takes us away from intimate connection. ~ Adyashati
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Adyashanti: “It’s something bigger than that. Meditation is a literal embodiment of stillness, but in a broader sense stillness is psychologically being willing to open to the reality that we really don’t know anything. I think all good spirituality starts in a state of I don’t know—a state of uncertainty. When we start to look into our true nature and ask ourselves who we really are, we find we’re really not sure. And if we can not know—and not struggle to know—we have a chance to find stillness.
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“We usually equate not knowing with anxiety, but that’s because we think we should know. Adyashanti
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“When you fully accept that you don’t know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through you. And even thought can then benefit from that, since the greater intelligence can flow into it and inspire it.” Tolle
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“Become at ease with the state of “not knowing.” This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state.
“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.” Tolle.
~ thanks to JB Clement 🙂

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