09-26-2016, 01:36 PM
I know these are personalized terms, but here's my take on it:
'Knowledge' to me is not truth. It's like a suit of clothing truth can put on (and, just as easily, take off).
'Knowing' something gives one power over it -- a platform to look at it from and make sense of it ... or a mechanical framework to lock it in and make it work "the way it should" -- or, at least, power over one's own experience while dealing with that something. The "objective knowledge" itself is not the source of the power ... it is the CERTAINTY that that knowledge is correct. An illusion that becomes more workable the more it is stabilized.
'Mystery,' i think, is the basic nature of truth/reality. one of "the voices" (my nickname for my guides) said it this way:
"Truth cannot be known/possessed. Truth can be experienced."
Truth cannot be locked down into a framework of knowing ... not forever, at least. It is limitless, and the journey toward it has no finite end. The EXPERIENCE of truth without the hope or desire of knowing it, however, grants another kind of power ... which i call 'inner strength' (mostly because i don't like the external implication of the word 'power'). It grants a confidence and certainty that bypasses the mind/ego entirely and becomes a permanent part of the self.
My favorite boon from the 'humble experience of truth' is, by far, what it does to one's fear/discomfort regarding 'The Unknown.' The need to know what is happening is less and less a panicky urgent thing that feels necessary for survival. Another of 'the voices' called this:
"The ability to walk through Hell unscathed."
=/ i know concision is a problem. i have trouble 'shutting up' once i start blabbing, and rarely know when to stop. I think it's now =)
'Knowledge' to me is not truth. It's like a suit of clothing truth can put on (and, just as easily, take off).
'Knowing' something gives one power over it -- a platform to look at it from and make sense of it ... or a mechanical framework to lock it in and make it work "the way it should" -- or, at least, power over one's own experience while dealing with that something. The "objective knowledge" itself is not the source of the power ... it is the CERTAINTY that that knowledge is correct. An illusion that becomes more workable the more it is stabilized.
'Mystery,' i think, is the basic nature of truth/reality. one of "the voices" (my nickname for my guides) said it this way:
"Truth cannot be known/possessed. Truth can be experienced."
Truth cannot be locked down into a framework of knowing ... not forever, at least. It is limitless, and the journey toward it has no finite end. The EXPERIENCE of truth without the hope or desire of knowing it, however, grants another kind of power ... which i call 'inner strength' (mostly because i don't like the external implication of the word 'power'). It grants a confidence and certainty that bypasses the mind/ego entirely and becomes a permanent part of the self.
My favorite boon from the 'humble experience of truth' is, by far, what it does to one's fear/discomfort regarding 'The Unknown.' The need to know what is happening is less and less a panicky urgent thing that feels necessary for survival. Another of 'the voices' called this:
"The ability to walk through Hell unscathed."
=/ i know concision is a problem. i have trouble 'shutting up' once i start blabbing, and rarely know when to stop. I think it's now =)
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