The Book of Not Knowing: Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness

Clarity is your mind's natural state. I don't usually ‘unpack’ analogies, but this one is worth looking at directly… The outside-in misunderstanding is the ‘factory’ that contaminates the river. Contaminated thinking is the ‘sewage’ the factory produces. The river's source is MIND, the intelligent energy behind life. The river is the principle of T

the path to understanding is not through speculation or philosophical discourse but through personal realization, which requires avoiding distractions and cultivating whatever brings one closer to one’s own mind.

The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That’s why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment. Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, t