Everything That You Think You Know Is Garbage
Ananta reveals that intellectual knowledge and mental concepts are garbage that obscure direct truth, and only through direct awareness can one discover what is real.
What is the benefit you get by fitting everything into your intellect, even for those fleeting moments that you just feel like ‘Ahh, finally figured it out’? It is just the same old conditioning no? It tells you… it stops poking for a moment ‘You don’t know that, you don’t know this. How will you live your life? What are you doing?’ The same conditioning that prevents us from integrity, prevents us from seeing that everything that we think we know is garbage. [Smile] Everything that we think we are so right about, which could include the words of Satsang. All rubbish! Because once you start to value words, you are no longer valuing your Self. When you start to value the representations more than Reality itself. And now, you have no excuse actually because you have checked on every representation and seen that it does not, is not a good representation of Reality. You have no real excuse left. [Smile] tiang on to an idea, which is true… which one will you hang on to? If you hang on to an idea, which is true, everything else, you have to let go of. Which one will you hang on to?
Key Teachings
- All conceptual knowledge and mental frameworks are ultimately empty and serve as barriers to truth
- True understanding cannot come from intellectual knowledge but only from direct realization
- The ego's identification with what it thinks it knows keeps one trapped in illusion
From: You Know Yourself Already - 30th July 2019