What is “Know Yourself Absolutely!”
- The first and biggest mistake is to think, that to know oneself is a process.
- You know more and more each day about yourself and this means that there is a process and development, there is time in the picture.
- “Know Thyself!” doesn’t include process, development or time in itself.
- If you look for the command more closely, you see two things:
1. Know Thyself happens at once.
2. Know Thyself includes Absolutely everything about yourself, it is All.
Look the word even if your thinking process doesn’t see those facts. Do you see them?
The thinking process of human being is relative and so you cannot see the things that are beyond the relativity.
I give your three samples:
1. They say, that the student in the buddhist monastery has to answer to this kind of question to pass it through: “ What kind of sound comes, when you hit together one hand?”
2. What is beautiful and ugly at the same time?
3. What is fast if you don’t use time at all in answering the question?
All these questions are folly or non sense.
Human mind tries to find for a reasonable question a reasonable answer. If the question is non sense or folly, he or she doesn’t get the answer. How to solve the problem?
My answer for all of those questions could be the same - “Corkscrew”.
My answer belongs to the same system than the question. Both are non sense.
What I want to say with this example is that the Know Thyself- thing is non sense for the thinking process of all the human beings, but does it make it impossible? No!
Same kind of things are God, Soul, Absolute, Infinity, Absolute Truth, Love, Goodness, Harmony, Knowledge, Timelessness, and so on.
For our thoughts these things are non sense and it seems that they belong into the same Order. Are there things beyond our thoughts?
Also the Know Thyself belongs into the same order. It is non sense for our thoughts, but it doesn’t make it impossible to reach.
To the last thing I make an easy question: “Can you live in an another place than in NOW, NOW, NOW, ...?”
Past is those same NOWs same is with the future. And between the past and the future is the NOW.
Do you think it is true? Is it too simple?
Lets make a definition: “ NOW is between the past and the future and it cannot include not a bit from the past and the future.”
Now you can answer a very simple question: “How long time is the NOW?”
1. If you are good in mathematics, you can tackle the question with two cycles that are only touching each other. Other cycle is the past and the other is the future. The touching point is the NOW. Measure the touching point!
2. For us mortals is the following example. Let’s say that the NOW is one second. Clean away the past ant the future from the one second and you get 1/10 second. There are 10/100. Clean the past and the future and you get 1/100 that is 10/1000, and so on.
How long a time is the NOW? Is it simple?
The truth is that you cannot measure the NOW. It is Infinite and still it the only ‘time’ you can live your life. It is not at all time. It is better to call it a place.
The NOW is also the place where the Know Absolutely Thyself happens. To me it is the place where the Wholeness lives.
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