Unknowable

There is a connection between thinking and seeing form and not thinking and seeing the formless. When you are not thinking, what ever you look at, you are seeing the formless, and when you are seeing the formless, you are not thinking. That's the connection. That part is not so mysterious. The mind simply cannot wrap itself around an objectless experience. Such an experience is unknowable. That is the experience of reality without thought. It is both objectless and unknowable. No thought, no-thing; no thing no thought. That is the equation.

This is why reality is spoken of not as unknown but as unknowable. Reality, as it is, is unknowable. It is not accessible to the thinking mind. So long as thought is present, so long as you look from the thinking mind, reality eludes you.

What then is the option? What else is there besides looking from the thinking mind? Simple, there is looking at the thinking mind. When you look at the thinking mind, you are not looking from the thinking mind. In fact, you are looking from somewhere else, somewhere other than the thinking mind. In looking at the thinking mind, the mind is turned into an object. The paradox is, by doing so, the thinking mind dissolves. another way of saying this is that the mind reveals its objectless nature.

The reason is simple, even logical. When looking at the mind, you are looking from somewhere other than mind. This nether region is called no mind, Looking from no mind, or looking from objectless mind, there is no knowledge of objects. Thus, reality is unknowable.