Understanding And Not Understanding

Understanding isn’t accepting and repeating a set of words and beliefs that saturate the mind. Understanding comes from raw practice, and direct insight into the nature of mind; without this, we’re guessing. Hearsay is gossip – an accumulation of partial ideas, which causes conflict and separation.

Understanding isn’t something wonderful. It’s a relief – a quiet “Ah”. There’s an absence of wonder. The mystery about the nature of our true reality is no longer a theory. Whatever we see, hear, do, pure consciousness is always present, and never changes. It is nothing to get excited about.

When we drop our memories, all that is left is emptiness = pure cognisance = clarity = divine splendour. There’s nothing euphoric about this; we just melt (from the Latin mollis, ‘soften’).