05-15-2011, 03:09 AM
That's like where Ra says we need to understand, but we can't understand. The idea is to understand the nature of the circumstances and necessary limitations with which we're forced to operate, so that we can have some freedom. Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment chop wood, carry water - but with some profound liberation. It's like allegory of the cave (the 'matrix'), or the fish realizing that it is swimming in an 'ocean' as if there was some other possible context of being. If you take 'thought' for granted, then you have not realized 'thought' as a principle of being.