Italie 2012-08_La recherche de la connaissance est infinie

I want all the people who are interested in what it is I'm sharing with them I want them to learn how to think philosophically and metaphysically you know we're not all going to be a Socrates or a Plato we don't have to be but you have to learn there there's a way of of seeing and thinking about what is what it means to exist that you that you need to cultivate we need to cultivate it you know and it it's something you you can do but it's you know it's not for most people it's just not their habit it's just not you know wow really well I didn't they say well I didn't take philosophy in college how am I supposed to do it now so the question is are you curious are you a curious person about CU you see the thing is if you if you're going to cultivate this capacity for deep inquiry deep introspection deep contemplation you have to be a very heroic thinker because the minute you enter on to this kind of Journey of philosophical and metaphysical inquiry and insight you you have you immediately find yourself in a superior forgive me for saying this but I think you can take it a superior position to you know probably four fifths of the human or you know or more five six 78s of humanity because because most human beings operate within very rigid and fixed belief systems that give them a sense of comfort and security right the right which which dogmatic and rigid dogmatic and rigid thinking doesn't only relate to political issues you know in political philosophy but it also relates as we all know to religion and metaphysics right so if you accept a particular political view or position that you feel is the one and only right one you'll feel safe and secure in the fact that you know what the right way is and the other side or the other sides are wrong and then you you experience a sense of self-confidence but this also relates to as we as you all know to often people who hold traditional religious perspectives you know and uh but this also relates to you know even to more sophisticated spiritual and metaphysical perspectives but the thing is um when you enter into this this more more this more complex and nuanced capacity for thinking and for cons considerate considering reality you you you have to face a scary truth which is that you're never going to be able to figure it all out and most human beings just are not ready for that one you know they they want to know what it is so they can feel a sense of comfort and a sense of safety and a sense of you know security right and that's that's the majority of human beings are more or less at that point in their level of personal development and cultural development and I know that's kind of a gross generalization but I don't really think it's that far from the truth but if you're when you're going to enter into this level of inquiry you you have to there's a there's there you have you there's a shocking recognition of the fact that um that you know heroic men and women throughout history have been on this journey and nobody's figured it all out there have been great thinkers and great realizers that have contributed big pieces of the P they they've contributed big pieces of the puzzle they've really added they you know their own insights which are always built on the insights of those who have come before them which are always insights that are built on those who came before them and there and there are always insights built upon those that have come before they add whatever they some some insight they've had that's adding to it so they're they are actually they're contributing to the evolution of human knowledge about reality and but um but you realize nobody's figured everything out and it's not possible to do that and so at an existential level that requires an enormous degree of spiritual maturity to realize that you're you know that that understanding what it means to exist you know is a is an ongoing process and you know that requires a level of an incredible level of maturity because you have to be able to Bear the in the the the insecurity of knowing that you're never going to be able to figure it all out you're never going to do it you're not going to ever be able to figure it out no and no one ever no one's ever going to be able to figure it all out you know in the in traditional metaphysical view is that you know if you have a great realizer like a m you know katama Buddha or Jesus Christ there you know they figured it all out and the thing is they they they these were all individuals and there many many others who saw a lot remember we're going from here to here so these are individuals who saw and knew and understood a lot more about what it means to exist than most people but they certainly hadn't figured it figured it all out but in order to develop spiritual self-confidence and right you don't need to figure it all out isn't that interesting so what I'm speaking about here of getting to that point in your own Evolution as an individual where it becomes absolutely important for you to be able to come to terms with what it means to exist in a in in a very deep and profound way uh is really a big deal and I can help you with this but it's really this is really something that you you all need to develop within yourself there are people who think Andrew is incredible evolutionary Enlightenment is a perfect teaching and they're convinced that it's the case now they may be right they may be wrong but they haven't made it their own they simply have accepted that based on their experience they think it's fabulous and fantastic and maybe even perfect whatever that means but unless you know because they they may be spent time with me they maybe came on some Retreats or many Retreats and they and I convinced them but they haven't really struggled with the metaphysical and existential questions that the teaching is is a response to themselves right unless you struggle as an individual unless you're willing to struggle with the metaphysical philosophical and existential questions that this teaching is a response to yourself unless you are unless you struggle with those questions yourself then even a teaching like this becomes um something that you use as a source of soless you know source of confidence you know you become a True Believer you see you see you can be a True Believer if you're a Christian or you're a Jew or a Buddhist or a follower of mine or of evolutionary Enlightenment and True Believers are powerful because they really are convinced that something's true right right but there's a difference between being a True Believer and and making and and and it's only if you struggle with with the with the uh with these existential challenges and our struggling with them ongoingly really because there's always going to be more to figure out there's always more to understand there's always more to come to terms with it's endless right this the Quest for knowledge is endless so unless questions you know that this teaching is an answer for unless they become unless they're your questions and unless you feel they're really important questions and are willing to struggle with them you're only going to be able to get get that far you follow now the good side of it is of course you know when you become a when you become a a philosophically and metaphysically curious person and and philosophically and metaphysically hungry person life becomes a very exciting process of Perpetual insight and Discovery it's perpetual so you're just you're having these aha moments you know it's not like one every 10 years it's like every week couple times a week maybe once every day wow ooh e a ooh really oh yes I well I I mean it if you're busy with this all the time and it's something that you're actually very personally connected to how important it is to be on the very edge to be on your own Edge in relationship to your quest for knowledge and understanding it won't happen but you see if you if you're on your Edge all the time in relationship to this quest for knowing quest for knowledge then you know you're going to be having breakthroughs all regularly