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  • flashX
    #3261
    "There is no ignorance, there is knowledge

    The terms "ignorance" and "knowledge" are used in a special way here.

    Ignorance

    In common use "ignorance" can mean ignorant of "things" as in ignorant of how to treat others, or how to ride a bicycle. This is not the meaing that is meant here by "ignorance".

    Ignorance is the ignorance or not knowing your true nature. Your true nature is nothing. No-Thing. Get it? It is common for people to say, "I am a doctor", or "I am a plumber" or to associate your self with some thing. Never forget that ideas, concepts, beliefs, conditionings are also things; they are products of the mind. The mind is another thing. Your body is another thing. You are not the body, you are not the mind.

    Knowledge

    Knowledge is the knowledge of your true nature. It is living in the force, every moment, open and honest with *what is* in every moment. It is not knowledge of any "thing" but abiding in the force in every moment. Then you are your true self, doing and being the force in every breath.

    This is not knowledge that can be "gained", it is a realization.

    Most people live their lives believing themselves to be the body, or the mind. This is the first attachment that we have and often the last to be let go of. As long as you believe yourself to be the body, believe yourself to be the mind (or the contents of mind) you cannot be in/as/of the force. Where there is "you" there is no force, where there is the force, there is no "you". For the you that you have identified with and believe to be real is simply a set of beliefs, experiences, conditioned behaviors, likes, desires, wants and needs. All of these are together called "ego" and it is this ego that is what causes separation. The ego must justify its existance, it must find meaning for itself. It fears death and dissolution and so seeks to protect itself and its ideas even unto death. The fear of ego death is the basis of separation.

    Most people live from a mistaken assumption. They have identified and attached to the body and contents of mind and live in separation rather than in their true nature. This is ignorance. It is said in Buddhism "that there is no one who is not the Buddha nature". Most are asleep to this "knowledge" and instead live in the ego rather than in their true nature, rather than in the force, in the ever present moment of *what is*. Move from the mistake that "you" are real to the knowledge, understanding and realization that your true nature is *what is*, is the force.

    You are not the body, you are not the mind. There is no conflict, there is only peace, there is the force.. There is no birth, no death, there is simply *what is*.

    In the Book, "I AM THAT", Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, he writes:
    "There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do things that entangles you in the results of your efforts - the motive, the desire, the failure to achieve, the sense of frustration - all this holds you back. Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it. "

    This is not knowledge that can be "gained", it is a realization. How is it realized?, that is what the great sages have been pointing to for millenia. Perhaps some suggestions here:

    Admit you know nothing. Anything that you think that you know is simply a belief, or set of beliefs about what happened to you in the past. If you stay focused in the ego, then the best you can do is react to situations. When you are in/as/of the force, open and honest in every moment, then you respond to what is. "