Knowledge

When you see that no-one knows It’s easy to forget to be Serious

Knowing you don’t know is a start But when you don’t know That you don’t know Then the burden is lifted

In your total not knowing You are free Even to seek

You can’t see yourself from here Maybe if you walk over there You can see yourself From there

The mystery shrouds itself In logic

That which you are trying to Transcend Is it

You can know nothing Intentionally Or you can know nothing Unintentionally Either way there was Nothing to know

A concept lasting a paragraph Is fraught with danger A line or two is safer Silence is faultless

If you scoff because Advaita Is used to sell vacuum cleaners Think again Selling is it And think again Scoffing is it

Nothing cannot be said

Understanding Destroys the mystery

Every good concept Renders itself Immediately unnecessary

Maybe bad wrong silly naughty concepts Point to non-conceptual oneness More accurately than Good clear believable concepts

How many years of seeking Before nothing is finally learnt

Look at the branches swaying  in the wind At what point Can you reach a conclusion

For perfection to be running smoothly Your understanding is not required

The one thing you know about The unknown Is that it can’t be Known

Silence is a word Pretending to describe What it is not

You read this And think you understand it And weigh it up But you don’t even know From where a thought comes

Truth cannot be seen Because truth is what is looking Right now

Here suggests there Now suggests then This suggests that The mystery is safe

Beliefs have to be remembered True knowledge is unrecorded And unknown

If you tick off Everything you know This will be emptiness

Neti Neti Not this not this Also applies to itself

Not-knowing Doesn’t take years of practice

You can’t know what it is You don’t know Which really means You know everything

It’s easy to be a seagull Because all you have to do Is squawk in the right way And any squawk  Is it

To say that truth can’t be spoken Is only true When not said

If you misunderstand a concept How will you know?

If you want peace beyond Understanding Don’t try to understand