Mind is incapable of knowing the truth. It can gather all kinds of information about truth, but to know about truth is not to know truth. To know about love is not to know love.
One has to go into the experience itself.
One has to go into the experience itself.
You can know all the great philosophers of the world, you can accumulate great words, theories, hypotheses and you can come to certain arbitrary conclusions of your own.
But remember, they are arbitrary because they are not rooted in your experience. It will hinder your search.
But remember, they are arbitrary because they are not rooted in your experience. It will hinder your search.
Knowledge can give you a false notion that you know. And once that wrong idea enters in you that "I know," then the inquiry stops.
One has to know that one knows not.
One has to know that one knows not.
One has to put aside all information for and against, theistic, atheistic, religious, philosophical.
One has to put aside every kind of knowledge, then the inquiry begins. Then one becomes a true seeker of truth because then one is open.
One has to put aside every kind of knowledge, then the inquiry begins. Then one becomes a true seeker of truth because then one is open.
Out of that state of not-knowing, one day the great blessing happens that one comes to experience truth, to live it; one becomes it.
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