Truth Is An Acquisition

The truth is an acquisition.

Of course, not a thing, but some sort of acquisition of some sort of sacred or special knowledge.

In other words, enlightened people know something, that I don’t know.

No matter how many times you tell somebody that that is not what it’s all about, there really is no other option that the mind has but then to keep believing that someone that is happy, someone that seems to be free. Someone that doesn’t seem to be limited to this endless turmoil of self, must know something that I don’t know.

Actually the funny thing is, it’s the opposite that is the case. I used to know a lot of things too. I remember what it was like.

I mean the first thing that I knew, was that I didn’t know. That is where the spiritual seekers starts off.

The one thing I know for sure is that I don’t know.

So that is where I started off. That is a form of know, and I’m pretty sure of what I know.

Most people know who the good people are, and who the bad people are, and most people know who the worthy people are and who the non worthy people are.

Most people whose doing the right thing, and whose doing the wrong thing. Most people know which side of the political spectrum is the right side, and which is the wrong side.

We can go on and on, almost endlessly.

We go around saying, “I don’t know what I really want to know”, so I’m seeking it to find out.

We read books, after books on top of more books on top of more books. Even when the books say there nothing to know. We say, “someone who know that must really know something special”. So we keep looking and looking.

Somebody knows.

The we hear others say, “find out who you are.”  Then we think that all these other people know who they are, "they" must know, I mean, they are asking everybody else to know. Right?

We think our own liberation, our own freedom doesn’t matter. Some missing piece of knowledge that is going to take all of the insecurity away.

But of course everything that we think we know, is simply a product of our own conditioning. Whatever we know it’s nothing more than your own conditioning. Whatever you were taught about right and wrong, that is what you know. If you go to another culture, they have a whole different idea of what is right and wrong. If you go the the tribal head hunters and cut someone’s head off isn’t really a bad thing. You come over to our culture and cut someone’s head off; it’s a totally different ballgame, right?

Now who is right? Where did we learn which is right?

So we just have our concepts that we are taught of what is right and wrong, and what we know, and what we don’t know.

We will believe anything that holds out hope that we will get the secret.

We will just buy anything to be enlightened. “To be enlightened, you must stop your mind.” Ok, I’ll do that, but of course the truth is that most people have no idea that stopping their mind is going to help them towards enlightenment. They just take it on as a new piece of conditioning.

While stopping your mind may having absolutely nothing to do with spirituality. But you don’t know, and on it goes.

In fact, if you look at anything and ask what can I know for absolutely certain. What you find out is that you can’t know anything for absolutely certain. In fact it’s impossible to know anything for absolutely certain.

I won’t go into why, I’ll let you figure that out.

It’s actually a pretty simply equation of why it’s totally impossible to know anything for certain. You can only know something with a greater or lesser degree of certainty, but you can’t know everything with absolute certainty.

So we begin to think that the really awake people really know something that we don’t know. We think that if someone says, “Everything is One,” that somebody has got to that conclusion that everything is one because they know everything is one.

So they think it’s a matter of finding out that it’s true, that everything is one. That if I come to know that for myself, than I will be in a better off shape than I imagined.

As if it was an addition.

But actually it’s just the opposite. When you know that you don’t know anything, and you know that you can’t know anything, then there is only one thing left.

You don’t get to oneness by means of addition, or by means of merging things together into one thing. You come to know oneness, because you start to realize that you don’t know anything.

It’s a very confusing thing to hear is it not? I mean, are you totally confused right now?

So when we take a spiritual inquiry; we think we are going to get to an answer. I imagine most people have asked themselves who thinks they are going to get to an answer. Then they can write a book about it. Then they can say, "I realized who I am, and here is what I found."

Or you can sit around thinking to yourself; I’m really glad to know who I am, and let me see, this is who I am, it’s really a fun thing to know, but it’s a paradox because when we know who we are, we finally achieve that truth, that state of absolutely not knowing anything about ourselves.

Isn't that the beginning of the truth?

One can not know who they are, it’s impossible to know who you are, or what you are, you can’t know it.

You can only be who you are; knowingly.

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