Nothing Needs To Be Known
True freedom arises when we release conceptual knowing, allowing our true Self to be fully apparent and known not in the head but in the heart.
Such a beauHful insight when you said something about ‘What is knowing, who knows something?’ And it was just like nothing, nothing is known because there is nothing to know. It does not need to know anything and nothing is known. And it's so, it is so freeing and beauHful and so thank you.
So welcome. And when she's speaking like that it's beauHful because what she's talking about is a ‘conceptual knowing’ and in the absence of conceptual knowing you are not lost. She’s laughing, she's smiling saying ‘It's so beauHful’ and to someone who is not meeHng her there, it may sound absurd. That, that just sounds dumb. To not know anything in the world is a confirmaHon of being stupid or dumb. But she's saying ‘Nothing is known, nothing needs to be known; that's so beauHful’. Because in our conceptual empHness, when we are open and empty conceptually, our true Self is fully apparent and that is what she's calling beauHful. It does not need to be known in that way [poinHng to the head] but it is known in the heart. But convenHonally we don't use the term ‘know’ for that, although in Self-knowledge that is the knowledge that is being spoken about.
[Inaudible] It is just, it is like there's nothing to know here, I don’t need to know anything. Its so beauHful.
Yes, because the world's way has become to make progress by knowing more and more and more. And to see I don't need to know….
It does not need… why would it need to know anything? Because it is everything but it does not need… but it is not associated with anything known like it's just Is.
Key Teachings
- When conceptual knowing drops away and we are open and empty conceptually, our true Self becomes fully apparent
- The Self is known not in the head through concepts but in the heart - through direct experience
- True freedom arises from recognizing that nothing needs to be known, releasing the world's way of making progress by knowing more
From: If You Are Looking for the Truth, Don't Go to Your Mind - 5th February 2021