Not Knowing is the Highest Intelligence

I was talking to one of my friends at lunch today. We were discussing, how is it possible to realize something that essentially has no definition, that cannot be named? Most of us are looking for an explanation that will cause us to move further along in our quest for "illumination". But the problem is that when we seek, we must have some "idea" of what it is that we are seeking. So what we seek is actually the content of our own mind. It is the illusion of a self that knows. That idea that we have is a projection of the self, the duality of thought. What is "known" to the mind as "knowledge" is the product of a defined self image. The "known" and the "self" are one in the same. Its conceptual separation is the duality of thoughts illusion of a permanent entity that thinks. So you are your thoughts they are not a separate from you, they are you. Whatever you perceive as a separate observation is the fallacy of a mind that is caught in an ego/centric cause and effect relationship.

How does a person realize that which has no conceptual comparison, that cannot be confirmed by a process of intellective logic. It can be quite humorous to try and talk about that which is unexplainable. One ends up going in a circle of seeming contradiction. But there are changes in ones personality and in the way that a person lives. There is a peaceful quality that cannot be disturbed by the external. A quality of relaxed awareness that is beyond practiced meditation and concentration. It is the outcome of freedom that is not the result of something sought or the product of a manipulation. Freedom from the known (the self that knows) causes a capacity to open up that allows one to see into the very depths of ones own mind and to realize a consciousness that is timeless and immeasurable. A person can never realize the fullness of such a consciousness because it is without beginning or end. Even Buddha realized that he had only touched the outer fringes of its immensity.

It is enough to say that to begin, such a realization must have the quality of unattachment that is the outcome of the negation of the known. Awareness that is absent the self that is seeking. The dissipation of a consciousness that is conditioned by the accumulated. All these words are meaningless if one clings to an ideal, the self created. "It" may happen when the mind is without thought, absent the mechanism that is seeking. There is a quality of non-being that is the desolation of identity that brings about something that is a kind of disconnected intelligence. Something that is without a source or an origin. It is everything and nothing in the same moment. It escapes understanding and cannot become memory. It is totally new and different from moment to moment. It is simplicity that cannot be captured. You cannot know what it is or is not. But if one is aware, an awareness that has realized a consciousness that is not connected to the self, then ones life is transformed. This "transformation" is not a result, or a defined being that exhibits an ideal of what it is to be "illuminated". Any perceived commonality or recognition is the product of the illusion of a mind that is seeking explanation and reconciliation. Such a person abides in the simplicity of just existing as an awareness that has no purpose or agenda. It is a voidness or emptiness that allows for the spontaneous intelligence of the moment, an intelligence that has no connection to what has been or what will be. It is wholly the truth of the moment that is absent the self as the movement of the known.