 124. Philosophy � Greek |
"All I know is that I know nothing." -Socrates
i.e., I know that I do not know or even wish to know the man-made names, man-made specification, man-made systems and mental structures which men apply to everything in order to assume that they "know all about it" and "know what it is." What I do "understand" is the truth of life. The truth of life is not labels and man-made specification, but to EXPERIENCE the miracle of life moment to moment as an eternal being.
The miracle of life is like a divine motion picture show created by the interplay of basic energy. The story or plot in the movie is secondary. The miracle is the PROCESS of the movie itself, i.e., its materialization and manifestation.
A child may scream while watching a horror movie. An adult will laugh at the same movie. Why? Because the adult "understands" the process of the movie making, i.e., lights and shadows.
When I was a child, I spoke and watched the movie as a child. Now that I am an adult, I have put away childish things and the ways I watch movies. I understand as an adult (divine-self-realization).
How is it that life is real, and yet not real?
How is it that science is real, and yet not real?
How is it that thoughts are real, and yet not real?
How is it that logic is real, and yet not real?
How is it that mathematics are real, and yet not real?
How is it that life is real, and yet not real?
How is it that "you" are real, and yet not real?
Which part of you is real? Which part of you is not real? Which is finite and which is infinite?
Plato states: We can understand IDEAL REALITY (divine-self-realization) through the actual experience of it, we are all born with an understanding of IDEAL REALITY (our true self). The problem is that most individuals "forget" what we were born "knowing" because we get fooled by the appearance of things i.e., we become identified with the physical body-animal body and its animal instincts and then worldly objects which we fail to see as a "process" of G.O.D., the Generating, Organizing and Desolving of patterns. To be so completely identified with one's own physical body is also to be "possessed" by it (insanity). At certain times and during certain situations each human being may experience a brief moment of SELF-REALIZATION and have the "remembrance" that it is eternal spirit. This experience is called "ANAMNESIS." This is the same as a SATORI or brief experience of Nirvana, Samadhi, Kingdom of God, Heaven, or a Divine Calling to "Know Thy Self." To truly "Know Thy Self," it must be an actual experience, not an intellectual understanding, not a belief, but the moment to moment experience of being an eternal universal spirit.
