Spiritual knowledge cannot be studied.
It is ..........when there is listening.
The word listen and the word silent,
are made up of exactly the same letters.
Thus listening can only occur in silence.
What is this silence?
Is it the absence of sound?
No
It is the absence of the
self.
The self which is the accumulation
of what you believe
you have understood of Life or Truth,
all your experiences, all that bag which you carry about.....
...when that bag is thrown out along with all other garbage,
...
..there is silence.
When such a listening happens, something clicks,
something enters like an arrow
and hits something deep deep inside.
When is there a sense that an arrow has hit the mark?
When the identification with an individual body mind object,
hereto thought to be the self-identity, ......starts diminishing.
When the question arises,
...
..Was I born?
Or what was born was
.....
duration
in which an object
named "..........."
became perceptible?
What is being talked about is "that",
whose objective expression is this phenomenal world.
And thus no tool, no
concepts,
can enable the understanding to occur.
Not your cleverness,
not your intellect,
not your heart, either.
Not
your devotion
not
your analysis.
Not your agreement,
not your disagreement.
Not your acceptance,
not your rejection.
Just the vacancy,
.....without the thought of "vacancy".......
the deepest anguished thirst,
...
and......
Spirituality is nothing more than understanding
that it is not possible for you to acquire knowledge,...
....for you are the very knowing, without a knower thereof.
You are what you are seeking.
A real spiritual seeker ponders ...
....When I have no body, ..............what am I?
What is the Ultimate Reality,
whose
expression is the form
which
ponders the very question?
What are you?
Can you ever arrive at the answer,.... using your intellect?
Is the answer which can only be an apperception,
be
within the grasp of the intellect?
The intellect can, at best only grasp,
what you are not.
How do you understand anything?
Any knowledge of any kind that you think you have,
can only be in consciousness,
is it not?
How can the consciousness which appeared subsequently..
give you any knowledge
about that state
which exists prior to
the arrival of consciousness?
Any thought that you have reached,
or are going to reach
about that state which exists prior,
can
only be a conceptual conjecture, isn't it?
Just
like a dreamed up character, in your last night-sleep dream
speculating
on the shape of your nose.
Therefore know that it is consciousness
in which everything is happening....
....and
thus ...........that whatever is
happening,...
.. is purely imaginary, a hallucination.
The
hoopla of the drama of the last night-sleep-dream.
With that knowing,
there is a consequential stillness, ...
....in which there is "none" to pursue any other thoughts
which arise in consciousness.
All that happens is the "click" in the gestalting
and the apperception
.........
.......that all there
IS,
is
the Source of reality....
.....Which gives reality,
to all that there IS
.....and thus
it itself cannot be supported
or confirmed.
Each and every nuance,
each and every aspect,
each and every point of
phenomenality,
is the very source of
phenomenality.
As it is now validated
in fundamental science,
each and every point of
the Universe
is its center.
With this apperception,
there is an immediate knowing
that all being in flow,
all is temporary,
and cannot reflect the True State.
Remember, you cannot abandon
what you do not know.
To go beyond yourself,
you must know yourself.