Nosce te Ipsuma! - Know Thyself! - To Know it ALL

How the ‘Know Thyself!’ happens?

Written in 30/09/2006

I think it is true, that there are many ‘roads’. To my mind came a picture of the plus infinity, meaning the picture of bigger and bigger number. If you go long enough in that direction, you find the plus Infinity. I asked to myself, are there other road into the Infinity? I started to go the opposite direction to the minus infinity, smaller and smaller number. What did I got? I got the minus Infinity, meaning the same Infinity than with the plus Infinity. What did I learn? I learned that it is the same what direction you go, when you go far enough, you meet the Infinity.

I imagined then an area of a circle. The area has boundaries the circle line. To me it represent the relative area of the thinking. The area of the thinking grows, but there will always be something outside, that the thought doesn’t reach. That means to me the Infinity or the Absolute. How to get there, outside the relative ‘circle’ of the thought? You can take what ever ‘road’ and you get there, if you go far enough.

The Goal!?

Herman Hesse has said in his book called “Siddhartha”: “Searching is movement towards a goal, but to find is freedom -- it means being open -- when you find there will be no goal anymore.”

Written in 10/03/2006

Thomas 2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"

My words: I experienced the same thing so, that I was bewildered, when nothing was as I thought should be. When a certain time passes, the things you see now are as it should have been all the time.

The key in this text is, that the Mercy doesn’t come automatically, but you have to search it and to Know a lot of Yourself. The journey brings first sorrow and pain. In an other way to say it, also been away, from this Seeing, meaning the life of the ordinary, thinking person is also painful. To get rid of it is the main purpose of this person. The disturbance that was talked in the verse of Thomas comes in one sense from the finding of not the eternal happiness, but the state were good and bad are together. Also the death of me is not a small thing and to See all the bad things of the world in oneself.

In certain time I felt, that I couldn’t go any further away and first time in my life I had to beg for the Mercy. I got the Mercy and it told me, that you can manage so far by yourself, but not a step further away. In a certain time, you have to through yourself ‘to the hands of God - The unconditional jump of Herman Hesse.

Herman Hesse - the unconditional jump and my ‘table example’
This is from my ‘BOOK of the books’:
The German author and artist Herman Hesse talked about grossing the border of the unconditional jump. If I know it enough the term is not his but it was invented by some German philosopher. The term describes perfectly, what is needed to cross the Border. To me it means mentally the same, than to jump from the roof of a skyscraper. That is to me to find the LIFE in life. Now when I was writing this, I think that the word Jump is even better than the word Awakening. Or is it right to say, that when you ‘go’ over the Border you Jump to Awakening.

In some times I developed an example of the ‘table’. I drew a circle and asked what did I draw or how many things are described. I think you say, that there is an area inside the circle. Then you may see, that there is the circle line. What else? From this example came also the table thought.

Wittgenstein and his Finnish student von Wright said, that there are things, that may described as senseless. I don’t know the right word they were using. Perhaps it was absurd. In Finnish the word senseless is wary near to a word crazy. I think they meant, that you cannot think about some things, because your thinking process cannot understand them and doesn’t have a clue of them.

To me the thinking process of all the human beings are limited, it is relative. It can grow and the boundaries go further, but there is always the limit. So to me Wittgenstein found the God in his game with the words.

With the table example I can say, that we can go further and further away to the edge of the table and the last thing is the Jump of the Mercy over the edge.

On interesting thing is, that when a person is inside the circle line, he or she doesn’t see the area beyond the circle line or even the edge of the line. So if you like to see the circle or the table, you have to go to the space that is beyond the circle.

This means, that you Perceive the Absolute = the Area beyond the relative thinking process, if you shut down the thinking on go ‘outside’. From there begins the Seeing and Knowing Yourself. Also you have to bee ‘outside’ me, because other ways it disturbs the scenario.

The JUMP is a compulsory thing before the Knowing Absolutely Yourself!

The Goal is always the same, only the road differ, but even they become the very similar near the end
Even the jump is different for different people. One is looking for the God and goes to the Mercy Jump. It may explain the need of the fault finding of many religious people. Because when you jump you see all the faults and it is usually easier to see the faults of others. This may be one one of the reasons the believers are staying with the congregation. They See to much and suffer and the only salvation is to stay.

Other persons can Jump in meditations. It is a good way to Jump, you know then what you are doing and you are reaching towards Harmony and Nirvana.

The most dangerous Jumps happen accidentally, LSD-trip shows you all the badness in you and the trip turns bad.

Some may Jump when giving the birth, during the accident, in suicide attempt. If this happens, they come back and want to forget. This same is called the time the consciousness will changes. I believe that a person who makes the Jump wanting it can return back.

At first this condition gives the person the possibility to SEE more and more of oneself and the world of thought is not the only one. He or she becomes the person who see all the faults until the main subject starts to be him- or herself. All the badness of the world is found in me.

At last the person PERCEIVES, that there is the same question than with the child and the boogeyman. When you see under the bed the boogeyman disappears, because it has never even been. So stop imagine.

The thoughts of a human being is like the boogeyman. The human being thinks things to be something and as long it lasts the things are like he imagines them to be. When he stop’s, they disappear as the boogeyman. One that doesn’t exist is very easy to kill. You only need to SEE.

To where it lead’s the person? The person finds the LIFE in life. He stops been a person and a personality and the individual. Nothing is anymore the same. He or she lives in NOW.

“Happiness is not to reach the station, but to go on traveling!”

In a way the thinking person lives in the hope of the future. Even when he reach the goal, he was looking for after a wile he starts to hope again. This aphorism is a little bit good, even if it is wrong. The goal of the aphorism is to be in the movement forever. The goal is the movement. I wanted to reach to the Goal during my life.

The only real GOAL, without any movement anymore is in NOW, TO LIVE IN NOW. So easy!

I and ‘Nosce te Ipsum!’ - How I did it - “My road!”

Written 09/28/2006

I did ‘Nosce te Ipsum’ - ‘Know Absolutely Thyself!’ either by accident or then it had something to do with the Guidance from Up. I believe the latter.

This Guidance or that I was doing something that was decided by the Higher Mighty game certain to me after I heard the Voice in January 1987. I had been complaining in my mind about the work I was doing. I didn’t want to do it any more and I thought that I was doing it because I was put to do it. I was falling into the sleep and the Voice said it: “You have been told it all in November!”

So if there has been Guidance in my life, it has been to explain it ALL. If so when it started?

1. Perhaps it started with the reading and writing. At some time I became an addict for the books. I was reading our books and the books of all the libraries we were living. The last book I was reading was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I said it aloud after that book, that it now is finished. In a way it was true. I was not reading the book to get something serious. It has been after that only because of the passing of the time. Now I also see, that it may have been the time for writing to start.

2. I was so bad in writing at school when I was at the three highest forms of secondary school that I had to study also in one summer. In Finland it is very unusual.

But if I was in some kind of Guidance I had to learn to write. So to me now the reading served for the writing I had to do.

It is also true, that I didn’t pass the collage or the university, because of the writing. I didn’t do the last writing.

3. The skills with the languages: What I have been doing in the 80’s and 90’s has had everything to do with reading English. Only one book that has had some meaning has been in Finnish and also that was translated from English. So I has stayed in the starting blocks without English skills. And the funny thing was that at school I was worse than bad in languages - Swedish, Germany and Finnish . How an earth did I get so good skill in English, that I was reading paper bags already after one year of English teachings. It was not because of the school but because I wanted it and because of my method of reading the books.

For to my road is very important that I didn’t complete any normal steps in my life - none in the university, none when I was the teacher of economics at the school of commerce in Savonlinna. I gave to myself a new name - “I am not enough, BUT...”

- At school I was bad, but --- I made remarkable marks in history and in English and got myself in to the university.
- At university I was bad, but I got good grades in international politics and made all the book examinations. Only I couldn’t write, but I got myself to the teaching job.
- I didn’t become into a teacher, because I had no degree, no working documents, no formal education to become the teacher, but --- but I was damn good teacher of marketing psychology.

- The conclusion: I was bad, but --- there was something very, very excellent so I kept on going and I didn’t kill myself.

- The only thing I have completed is ‘Know Absolutely Yourself!’ Let’s go back to the Program, what would have happened, if I would have reached one of those goals as a normal person. The Road had stopped. It doesn’t mean that you have to stop. It means, that if you are unsatisfied for you life, keep on looking. The goal is there.

My goal was to find something, that would be ENOUG, the END - no movement after this spot.

So we have come on the ‘carrier of the EXPLAINER’ to the years before the first large work in the year 1985. The explainer starts to change.

I started to do some exercises of meditation. It was a question of relaxation before the sleep. Some of it happened before 1985 and some after it. One could say, that it was the question of tuning the the machinery into the working order.

I went to walk or to ski on the ice of the lake. After certain mileage there started to be two person’s, one was thinking and one was watching.

Written in 29/09/2006

At this time I was also reading much because of my work as a commercial teacher to get material for the teaching. My problem area was the tourism. I didn’t get why a tourist is happy or satisfied after the trip. Why is he or she saying, that ‘the trip was darn good’. In a way I could now say, that if a person cannot answer to this question, he cannot teach properly the tourism.

Two questions came together already at the end of 1970’s and at the beginning of 1980’s.
a. Why I cannot be happy or satisfied to my life? and
b. Why the tourist is satisfied to the product he has bought - the good quality and the good service?

The answer to these questions I got not until in the year 1996 and it solved it ALL. You can look more details from my home page www.lifeinlife.org .

The core theme on my road was:”Why the human being is behaving the it is?” So the main thing in the satisfaction of the human being and of me is in the feeling ‘I am good’ the question is about the behavior of the human being.

Who to reach the answer? You have to know the behavior of the human being. There is a common thought, that the behavior of the human beings is different. One is looking for the good feeling with money, one with the knowledge and one with the skill. So how I, a different kind of a person can find the answer to the question of satisfaction of different people?

If the people are different according the behavior, then there are millions and millions answers. How did it go with me, when I was looking for the answer to these questions?

The first big Perception was in the year 1985. At that time I couldn’t explain it all, but I had a feeling, that all the people are the same according the behavior. They are the same from the core and that makes they behavior relatively the same. I think this Perception is the key to Everything and also you should make it in the start of your road.

Why is it so? If the behavior of every human being is the same, then knowing one you know them all. And the one you can and should know is yourself. Then knowing yourself you know all the behavior of the human beings.

All the knowledge the human beings are gathering goes through me and been reflected through me - it is behavior - why we want to do it, what we do with it. Me it the core that wants to know and when we know more, we are better, we feel ourselves better.

Because of this when you ‘Know Thyself’ you get All the Knowledge, you know Everything. You remember the voice I heard in December 1987 - ‘You have been told it all in November!’

I think this is the goal you are reaching, when you are on the road to Know Absolutely Yourself. I didn’t understand what it meant 1987 and long time after that, but I sow it in my life and in my work. I didn’t go wrong far. I was like guided through all the bit falls. The same is with the new things you go through, you kind of know them already. You had the knowledge.

What happens when you Know Thyself is like the voice tells. It is not a long story. It happens in a blink of an eye and it includes it ALL. So happens because the key thing is the human behavior, all the people are behaving nearly the same way or lets say the same way. That is the first condition, if we thing that the Knowing Thyself happen the way I told you.

The second condition is, that the behavior is the same, because something in the human beings ‘paint’ all the behavior with the same ‘shade’. It makes its mark to all the behavior.

This second condition makes it possible, that the story behind the behavior can be told in a blink of an eye and it includes it ALL.

When you know the factory, your know all the products.

The ‘paint’ or the ‘shade’ to all the behavior of human being come from this words - “no ones me is enough for the person” - meaning ‘nothing is enough’.

The key thing for this is that it is not in the heritage but it is because we all have a certain common surrounding from were we all get it. Look for more from home page.

When you have courage enough to look for your me or yourself the me dies and you see it All for the first time as it is and has always been.

This is what I have been going thought on my journey

If this is interesting, you can see it all on my home page, if you can Finnish otherwise you have to be content with less.

You can always write to me and I can put some more text to the pages and also answer you directly. reunanen@saunalahti.fi

Ed

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