Knowing

Path Of Creator

Knowing In Relation To The Path Of Creator

Through your life journey, you will have learnt many things. You would have spent much time in school learning about various subjects to pass exams, in your spare time at home learning about subjects that interest you, or in University learning about what to do for your future career.

But throughout your life, how much time have you put into learning about yourself? 

It's only when we look back at our lives that we realize just how little time we have spent learning about ourselves.

When there is a lack of Self-Knowing, we will lack the knowledge of why we are unhappy, why we have fears, stress, diseases—why we are suffering.

If everyone spends time to know themselves, there wouldn't be a need for psychologists or doctors to exist.

The world has demands for these kinds of occupations because of the lack of Knowing people have of themselves. Without Self-Knowing, it's impossible for one to diagnose and heal themselves.

In an ideal world where true happiness was the goal, Self-Knowing would be encouraged. But unfortunately, we don't live in such a world. When was the last time you saw a poster that encourages people to know themselves, to meditate?

Thus the journey towards greater happiness will require the learning of Self-Responsibility.

How does developing Self-Knowing help with addressing the "problems" of the mind?

First, let us define the word "problem". 

The word problem is simply defined here as the experience of unhappiness (without the connotation that something is unworthy of love). Because if something can give you happiness without suffering, then that certainly is not a problem! But if there is something that makes you unhappy, then that is certainly something that needs to be addressed! 

So what do we need to address if we wish to be happy?

We need to address the Suffering states of the mind. For instance, our fears, our anger, our impatience—whatever beliefs or negativities we are carring that is making us unhappy.

But to do so will require one to become aware of them, to know one's negativities, to know one's sufferings—to Know One Self. Because how can one work on their sufferings if they are not even aware of their presence?

And there is a lot of darkness waiting to be discovered from within! 

The practice of meditation will help you to really discover yourself. Because it is only when you close your senses from the outside world and look inwards that you can go deep within to discover the Inner Sufferings, the repressed traumas, the buried anger, the forgotten pains.

Without meditation, instead of Self-Knowing, one will end up Self-Guessing. 

And the deeper you develop Self-Knowing, the more you will be able to transform the mind. Because the deeper you become aware of what beliefs you hold within that is making you unhappy, the more your mind will naturally find the inclination to let it go. Without developing such realization, one will find it difficult to release themselves from the grips of their Mind's long-established belief patterns. 

So, instead of developing unexperienced Knowledge about yourself from books, pick up the practice of meditation and begin Knowing yourself through Direct Experience!

This is not to say that book knowledge is bad. This is just to say that Experienced Knowledge is more transformative. So always validate what you read and hear from others through your own experiences!

Self-knowing is a journey. It is about Knowing The Self in Totality, from the Physical Self/Emotional/Mental/Intuitive to the Subtler Energetic Selves from actual experience.

To develop the Knowing about the Infinite Self—That is Self-Knowing!

Knowing in relation to the path of Self-Transformation

Previously, we have used an apple to understand the different degrees of Self-Knowing. 

Now let us use The Self as an example. 

1. Experiencing 

This is the stage when we start to become aware of the suffering states of the mind happening within, becoming aware of our anger, our fears, our wandering thoughts, becoming aware of the Darkness, the Chaos within.

2. Relating 

The more we develop Self-knowing, the more we will be able to understand how our suffering states of mind can affect our daily lives. For instance, we can slowly realize that all forms of negativities within—fears, judgement, anger, impatience, and so forth—all work to make an experience miserable! The more we realize this, the more we will develop the natural intention to address it.

3. Realizing 

By developing the Knowing even deeper, we will gradually realize the cause of our suffering states of mind—which is the attachment towards Negative Ideas, the ideas that promote Self-Rejection.

We will slowly realize that to transform the mind, we would have to release our attachment towards the Negative Ideas through developing Self-Acceptance. The more we realize this, the more we will realize that we are the Creator of our own reality, becoming our True Selves. 

4. Enlightenment 

Why is the mind created in such a way?

Why were we created to experiencesuffering in this reality?

The more we develop Self-Knowing, the more we will learn about our existential purpose, which can be enlightening and transformative indeed!