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Quiet Letters / 04 / Don’t know
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This one does not know I, me, my, mine.
Words may come to that effect, but it will be superficial now.
How, when, will, they don't know this one.
They don't know.
Just life moves this body.
All your life, your river's flow, has been a flow of consciousness.
So whatever is next, doesn't belong to you, it will unfold, and you are seeing this.
To the outside view, it may not look like that.
They find you making tea, and doing stuff like this.
But inside, you are empty. – Sri Mooji
Don’t know.
The words above are from my teacher, Sri Mooji. Spoken to me, during silent intensive retreat with him, in May last year. These words are no longer a teaching, but have become a living experience.
Don’t know.
I woke up this morning, with those two words present in my attention, and they had to be the focus of this week’s Quiet Letter.
Each day, this is my action. Non action. Non doing. Wu wei.
Not knowing is just that.
For the one who doesn’t know, is living fully in life’s flow, and is ready to move and switch, and switch again, at every twist and turn.
You walk, but you leave no path.
Not only do I leave no path, I follow no path.
I simply rise in the morning, and see what arises. As activities arise, events arise, communications arise, I trust in what comes in response to each situation. It is all one flow.
Not just in a daily focus, but also in the wider perspective, I leave no path, follow no path.
The time for paths is done here.
Accept the ebb and flow of things,
nurture them, but do not own them. —
Lao Tzu
Just this, no ownership, no decision, no choosing or not choosing. Just this is enough. Acceptance.
Don't try to be anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
— Ajahn Chah
Such peace is found in this not knowing.
Also in not trying, not doing.
When sitting, just sit. When walking, just walk. When eating, just be the eating.
It’s simple like this.
There is nothing we need to do, nor to become. We already are all that we could possibly be in this moment. This ever shifting moment, now, now, now, now…
In each moment, totalilty is possible. Simply by not knowing.
The moment we say, or even think, “I know”, we set conditions and limitations on ourself, on others, on the world, and our experience of it.
Why limit, when we can be fully open, to all possibilities.
I’ve said it before, what we think we are, we are not, what we are, we cannot possibly imagine. We can only be it. We cannot know it.
No great Sage ever says, “I know”. Yet we recognise a knowing in them, through their presence, their silence, their actions, and the directions they share with us.
Ask me what I lnow, and I'll tell you straight, I know nothing.
Ask me who, why, what, how, and I can't help you.
Ask me about Truth, and Truth will speak.
I know nothing.
— Bhagavati
I wish only that you look and discover the peace that is here for all to find. If they only stop doing, stop trying, stop knowing, and rest in the vast space created by this not knowing.
Don’t know. Don’t know a thing. Nothing. Nada.
Don’t know.
It’s more than enough.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Bhagavati
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The Quiet Letters : Quiet meditations and contemplations for peace and clarity, written and sent on Sundays from a tiny hermitage at the edge of the forest, in Alentejo, Portugal.
I mentor others in meditation, contemplation, mindfulness and self-inquiry. If you have a question, get in touch.
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