Confusion

To end confusion, it's good to look at how and when confusion arises. Clearly, confusion arises when you are thinking, when you are attempting to know, when you are trying to establish a personal position, when you are trying to establish a true belief. Truth will not allow it. Truth will not become the object of any belief. The Mystery will not be objectified. It will not include some things and exclude others. It extends the invitation to see that you are the whole of It not that you can know It.

Knowing takes two, a knower and some object being known. Hence, concern with knowledge, who's right and who's wrong, gives separateness a fighting chance by creating objectivity. The ego can only survive through objectivity, Objectivity means distance. It means separateness. The difference between the philosopher or scientist and the mystic is that the philosopher and scientist maintain thier objectivity, their ego. A mystic does not. Without knowledge of something separate, there is no objectivity, and without objectivity there is no knowledge of something separate.

Hence, ignorance is a confusion that arises through objectivity. The idea "my" knowledge arises and wham! You are caught in the trap of "I" "my" and "mine." You are in the trap of objectifyer. As a result, you feel apart from the whole instead of part of It. You have become distanced enough to judge It. By judging It, you exclude yourself from It. You objectify It. In your mind, the two are separate. Unity is missed.

Knowing takes two, but being is oneness. In other words: Truth does not allow for two. It does not allow for otherness. Seeing others requires a separate I. without that, all is one. All is one unified reality. This is very important because objectifying or judging will cause you also to feel separate. It will cause you to experience yourself as an outsider, as a separate entity. Being will not. Being is intimacy. Knowing is duality.

Although a distinction may be made between seer and seen, between emptiness and form, between manifested and unmanifested, realization is not objectivity. It does not create a separate observer. Rather, it disolves objectivity which creates the illusion of a separate obsever. What keeps the illusion in place is the ego's apparent ability "to know." But, the ego's knowledge is always knowledge of something other than itself. That is why Truth cannot be known by ego. How can an idea which insists on being separate know the truth of Oneness? That very idea must be seen for what it is.

Even spiritual ideas and insights are not exempt. The "I" gets great joy and satisfaction by figuring it all out. "I've got it!" or "I see it!" is another trap. Thinking leads to "knowing" and "knowing" creates the illusion of knower and known. Seeing creates the illusion of observer and observed. Just being is the only surety, the only activity that doesn't create duality. You can be knowledgeable or you can be one, but you can't be both. A scientist can have knowledge of something. A mystic cannot. He gives up knowledge for Oneness. He loses his self and gains the Whole.

The scientist and the philosopher are endlessly involved with making judgments, making observations and coming to conclusions. It is endless because no end is in sight. The mind always keeps going. Always, there is something new to consider. Always, there is another aspect, another perspective. Every ology except Selfology depends on separateness. Once you realize that knowing takes two, and being requires one, all the rest falls in place.