Knowing versus Not Knowing

If consciously or unconsciously we are convinced that life is fundamentally negative, then that breeds cynicism. It is a cynicism that is deep, at the core of our being. Cynicism means hardness. It is the opposite of vulnerability. You see, someone who is cynical knows. Someone who is cynical already knows. Indeed, most people are cynical without even knowing it. Someone who is fundamentally cynical already knows in a way that is very hard. They already know what? They already know that it's not possible. They already know what is not possible? Everything. You see? EVERYTHING! Why is this important? Because when we speak about Enlightenment, when we speak about a Liberation that is profound, we are pointing to the discovery of no limitation. No limitation means everything. It's inde- scribable. It's absolute. It's unthinkable. It's so big, it's so glorious and it means so much that you can say it means everything. And the point is, in order to allow the glorious and liberating fact of no limitation in fully, to allow THAT MUCH in, then all of the cynicism has to go. It has to go. So this cynicism then breeds a negative relation- ship to life, a negative relationship to life that is absolute. It is hard, invulnerable and very, very cold. Once again, this cynicism is based on the belief that one knows better, that one already knows better. This knowing is cast in iron. Almost nothing can penetrate it. This is the shell, the prison that most human beings are caged in. This is an absolute relationship to life, because one already knows. Knows what? That it's not possible—that everything, which means Liberation, is not possible. Do you understand? However, in a relationship to life that is funda- mentally positive, the picture is very different. Once again, in the experiential discovery of the fact that nothing ever happened, we realized that nothing was ever wrong. When we move that state of consciousness, that nothing was ever wrong, into the world of time and space, mind and body, self and other, nothing was ever wrong translates into a relationship to life that is fundamentally POSITIVE. Again, positive means nothing is wrong—because nothing ever happened. If nothing ever happened, how could anything be wrong? That's why we're smiling. This is the source of the absolute relationship to life that is positive. The human expression of an absolute relationship to life that is positive is humility, and genuine humility is the result of abiding in a condition of not knowing. This is the very opposite of an absolute relationship to life that is fundamentally negative—which is arrogance, which is when one already knows. If you already know, there is limitation, there is a fundamental limitation. If you dont know, everything is possible because there is no fundamental limitation. There is infinite space if you dont know. So resting in and abiding in not know- ing is the conscious experience of the individual who has died unconditionally to the past through the direct experience of nothingness, of neverwasness, of never- happenedness. Again, the conscious experience of the true self, of wholeness, springs from resting in not knowing. Not know- ing is the source of this absolute relationship to life that is fundamentally positive. This is the very opposite of an absolute relationship to life that is negative, that is based on this fundamental conviction that one already knows. So in this "I know" there is a fundamental limi- tation. When there is not knowing, there is no funda- mental limitation.