Can We Know Everything?

It is said that a Buddha is omniscient. It is also said that we are all Buddhas. Ergo, we can know everything. How can anyone know every thing?

When we understand the basis of anything, we can see how this can manifest into many forms. When we understand how things are caused by attraction, repulsion and inertia, we then realise their beginning, middle, end and transformation.

If we know that to be sentient is to be conscious, it’s clear that all creatures throughout the infinite universe are also conscious and aware, and make decisions.

At the same time, we recognise how beings can be distracted by these three principles. If we can understand this, so can evil minds. If we want to see whether the potatoes are cooked, we only have to prod one. People are a reflection of their ‘nourishment’. We know how people can be heated up, stirred up, wound up – and we know that there is a reason for this confusion.

When we are aware of how our mind works, we can empathise with others, and see why they come to their conclusions.

Buddha mind is an awakened mind
which knows that the essence of every sentient being is
pure consciousness.