24-11-2020
“I don’t know” is the only authentic true statement that the human mind can make.
For, all mental knowledge is ultimately nescience—a sand castle made of the sands of illusion that always ultimately breaks down into naught.
Self-Realization is not an experience but the cessation of all experience and mentation.
The mind comes to know that it does not know and that all its knowledge is nescience. The mind ceases its pursuit of immutable knowledge and understanding through its own activity.
When the mentation ceases, when the experience ceases, Reality, that which is eternal and immutable, becomes present, even as the sky makes its ever-presence revealed when the clouds disappear.
There have been many names given to this immutable Reality which is not only nameless but also unnamable.
Hence Lao Tzu (老子) begins his Tao Teh Ching (道徳経) as follows:
The Tao (Reality) that can be so signified is not the immutable Tao (Reality).
The Name (Truth) that can be so designated is not the immutable Name (Truth).