...Why don’t you really know what you want? Two reasons that you don’t really know what you want: #1 You have IT. #2 You don’t know yourself, because you never can. The Godhead is never an object of it’s own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself, fire doesn’t burn itself, light doesn’t illumine itself. It’s always an endless mystery to itself. I don’t know…And this I don’t know uttered in the infinite interior of the spirit. This I don’t know, is the same thing as, I love, I let go, I don’t try to force or control, it’s the same thing as humility. So the Upanishads say, if you think that you understand Brahman, you do not understand, and you have yet to be instructed further. If you know that you do not understand, then you truly understand, for the Brahman is unknown to those who know it, and known to those who know it not. And the principle is that anytime you as it were, voluntarily let up control, in other words cease to cling to yourself. You have an access of power. Cause you’re wasting energy all the time in self-defense. Trying to manage things, trying to enforce things to conform to your will. The moment you stop doing that that wasted energy is available. Therefore, you are in that sense having that energy available, you are one with the divine principle, you have The Energy. When you are trying, however to act as if you are God, that is to say you don’t trust anybody, and you are the Dictator, and you try to keep everybody in line. You lose the divine energy, cause what you are doing is simply defending yourself. So then, the principle is the more you give it away, the more it comes back. Now, you say I don’t have the courage to give it away – I’m afraid. And you can only overcome that by realizing, you better give it away because there’s no way of holding on to it. ~Alan Watts...
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:06:50 +0000
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