The Capacity to Understand

When you are engaged in the activity of thought, do you understand?  Is understanding the outcome of thought?  When the mind is preoccupied with ideas, with its natural tendency to divide, categorize and conclude is there true understanding?  Or does the mind merely fixate and verbalize the product of our so called learning.  Learning which is simply the repetition of what others have said and believe.  We think that we have intellect and understanding because we read books and listen to what the "experts" say.  It gives us a sense of a self that has the capacity to correlate and explain.  But do we ever experience an original intellectual conception?  Very few of us realize the original, understanding that is born of the original.  We live within a mind that is cultivated by what has been instead of realizing the new and never before.  The capacity to understand the newness of the moment requires a mind that is intensely aware, a mind that See's things as they actually are.  Such a mind is not obsessed with opinions about theories and codes.

A mind that is cluttered with all this accumulated meaningless junk prevents us from seeing.  It prevents us from having the capacity that is necessary for true understanding to flower.  The flower of true understanding begins with self discovery.  You have to realize that liberation from all beliefs is the first step.  Moving out the old so that you can see.  Negation is the road to the original.  When all is said and done nothing that is cultivated by thought is original.  The original is a spontaneous epiphany that is not a result of thoughts cunning objectives.

Because the mind is ever creating the illusion of knowing, the mind must be wholly aware of and free from its own self created distractions.  When the mind is utterly still and silent then thought ceases to be the agent of distraction and misunderstanding.  The mind is without verbalization.  Because thought is word and word is the illusion of the known.  The mind that is chattering cannot truly understand it can only react.  There is no such thing as abstract truth and understanding.  It comes uninvited, when the mind is free of all preparation, free of thoughts cunning intellection.