Beyond knowing and not-knowing

     Meditate on the positive aspect of life and then on the negative – then put both aside because you are neither.

     Look at it this way. Meditate on a birth: a child is born, you are born. Then you grow, you become young – meditate on this whole growth. Then you become old, then you die. From the very beginning, imagine the very moment when your father and mother conceived you, and into the womb of the mother you came. Just the first cell. From there look to the very end, where your body is burning on a funeral pyre and all your relative are standing around you. Then put both aside – the one who was born and the one who has died. Just put both aside and then look within.

     There you are – that which is never born and which is never going to die…. knowing and not-knowing, existing and not-existing. Then leave both aside that you may be. You can do it with any positive-negative polarity. You are sitting here. I look at you. I know you. When I close my eyes, you are no longer there, I don’t know you. Then put aside both the knowledge that I have known and the knowledge that I don’t know – you will be empty. Because when you put both knowledge and no-knowledge aside, you will be empty.

     One is identified with knowledge, the other with ignorance, but both possess something, both cherish something. Push both aside, knowing and not-knowing, so that you are neither – neither ignorant nor knowing. Then who are you? Suddenly the who will be revealed to you. You will become aware of the beyond, that which transcends. Putting aside both positive and negative, you will be empty. You will be no one, neither wise nor ignorant. Put hate and love aside, put both friendship and enmity aside… when both the polarities are put aside you are empty.

     But trick of the mind is, it can put one aside but never the two together. It can put one aside – it can put ignorance aside, then it clings to knowledge, it can put pain aside, but then it clings to pleasure.

     Clinging is the problem, because if you cling you cannot be empty. Just don’t cling to anything positive or negative because with non-clinging you will find yourself. You are there but because of the clinging, you are hidden. With non-clinging you will be exposed, you will be uncovered. You will explode.