Wednesday, September 16, 2009

No Understanding Needed

To be who you Truly are requires that you understand nothing. All understanding is related to some object or some phenomenon. Learning and understanding can, of course, be tremendously useful, but to find out who you are understanding only gets in the way.
To understand something, there must be an understander. So, to understand one's self requires a someone to understand. This makes two. But clearly there is only one self here, right?

Silence itself reveals you to your Self. It gives a moment of rest to the endless machinations of understanding, and transmits the true power within oneself. A power that empties out all understanding, all notion, all ideas, and leaves one available to live a life filled with happiness, peace, and gratitude. Until the quest to understand is dropped, and I mean fully and completely dropped, we toil in our endeavor to find what can only be found in Silence. When we allow Silence to be the only thing present, it is quite clear that no understanding is needed at all.

Happiness Can't Be Found

How would one go about finding what is only and always already present in one's self naturally?

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