Knowledge - No Knowledge

[Nick_A]

Hello Scythekain

Knowledge can serve two different purposes.It can serve the purpose of living the sleeping life or it can serve the purpose of awakening to a higher quality of life. Consider from Matthew 22:

18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?”
21"Caesar’s," they replied.
Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

The temptation is to mix these two qualities of knowledge. There is the perception of knowledge that belongs to the realm of Caesar which is the normal societal life based on inner corruption. Then there is the perception of knowledge that leads to awakening which begins with the conscious awareness of our personal inner corruption.

is there even such knowledge available to any mortal? we are all tainted by our own deaths

The knowledge is there. Our question is how to become open to it. How do we get out of our own way so that we can experience it?

that’s what most people do, I on the other hand clean the cup then pour in a disparaging view to compare it to my own. I find other people’s viewpoints on life to usually be to bitter to stand, and have to dump it out before finishing the cup.

This is fine for establishing our personal beliefs of right and wrong as we interact with the world. It is paying Caesar.

ah but to understand something, we first must pass it through filters. The faithful filters are very porous and allow alot of things through. Like believing that a cracker is the embodiment of christ. or believing that mohamed talked to god in a cave. These are extraordinary events that should be passed through the same logical filters as everything else. If someone came up to you and stated “I know the secret to life, and have learned how to control objects with my mind.” You for sure would not allow that through your filter. You would ask for him to prove himself.

Should we take knowledge and immediately integrate it into understanding without fully realizing the implications of doing so?

Understanding in the realm of Caesar requires these filters. The knowledge leading in the direction of God requires abandoning filters.

Normally in life we believe we are aware of this and that and respond in accordance with this awareness. This is the realm of Caesar. However, a person can become consciously aware of the reactions from their mechanical awareness. This knowledge requires abandoning filters. There is no filtering but the affirmation of the complete happening. We become conscious of our filtering. This awareness is quickly lost and we are back in out normal reactive mode of filtering.

The knowledge useful to life itself must be in the corrupt cup. It is all we are. There is no good in being gullible and naive. But just because one is not gullible doesn’t automatically mean they understand higher knowledge. Gradually, from a different quality of knowledge, the nature of life’s interaction can be moved to a more objective cup not limited by the results of this subjective filtering but built on the freedom to experience without filtering. Instead of arguing over right or wrong, what is the experience of being either right or wrong? The quality of such experiences is its own filter. Such experiences allow us to discriminate between what belongs to the earthly realm of Caesar and what belongs in the direction of God and where true humanity resides.