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To know you are the knowing of everything, and everything is equal and not separate from this knowing.
Salvadore Poe • The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe
In Zen this is called “not knowing.”
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
Know thyself.
Knowing is being. That is the way of freedom.
Salvadore Poe • The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe
Kena Upanishad: “Brahman is unknown to those who know It, and is known to those who do not know It at all.” This knowing of Reality by unknowing is the psychological state of the man whose ego is no longer split or dissociated from its experiences, who no longer feels himself as an isolated embodiment of logic and consciousness, separate from the
... See moreAlan W. Watts • Become What You Are: Expanded Edition
Protect the riddles, bear them in your heart, warm them, be pregnant with them. Thus you carry the future. The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways. You want to cast off the burden, you want to escape the inescapable. Running away is deception and detour. Shut your eyes so that you
... See moreSelf-enquiry Core Concepts:
Introspection and Self-Awareness:
Self-enquiry is a method of turning inward to understand oneself better, moving beyond the identification with thoughts, emotions, and the external world.
Questioning the "I":
The practice often involves repeatedly asking questions like "Who am I?" to investigate the nature of the "I" or
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. To know yourself in a flash, as I did in this moment, is to have a fleeting notion of the intimate monad, the soul’s magic word. But that sudden light scorches everything, consumes everything. It strips us naked of even ourselves.