राम
Awareness & Attention

Don’t Know What Is Going On

2019-09-24|1:10:00-1:12:18|Watch on YouTube

True knowing comes from the silence of not knowing, where only the 'I am' existence is certain - everything else is mind-made story.

‘Whatever you perceive, experiment with not trying to make an understanding out of it.’ Because what can happen with us is that - we are confronted with something in front of us and (something says) the mind will come and say ‘Okay, this is how we can make sense of this.’ So then the mind will offer you solutions like ‘it has to happen energetically in a way or it has to happen in some way.’ No. Allow yourself to be naked without any conceptual understanding. Don’t have an answer. Like, don’t know what is going on. Allow that wobbliness if there is to be wobbly. Otherwise what will happen is that we just convert our true insight of our heart into like a conceptual understanding and even a game plan in some way, which we may feel like it is helpful actually but it will only get in the way. So full, full openness, allow yourself to become fully empty, fully empty. Don’t know what this is. At least not here [Hand pointing head] Don’t know what this is and what is happening, that is much better.

Key Teachings

  • The mind cannot truly know what is happening - when you think you know, you're just creating a story
  • True knowing is not in the mind but in the silence of not knowing, where only the 'I am' (existence) is certain
  • What we call knowledge is merely memory and interpretation, not direct perception of reality
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