Arun - Awareness -OSHO
Me - Awareness can be total, and understood to be so only by the acceptance that what one is seeing is the absolute truth, freeing one of the need to understand it further. The process is the issue.What is the realm of knowledge that the mind accepts as known. Absolute knowledge is limited to tangible fact only. Yet the known forces recognition and therefrom, contextual evaluation, which is the basis of the process of understanding. Further knowledge seeking is a desire to understand other observed phenomena and stems from hypotheses building on these absolute Truths.Understanding grows hypothesis to belief to conviction to maybe another absolute Truth. Non negotiable beliefs are convictions that drive knowledge seeking. And dogma too!.
Was it the Big Bang and evolution or, Divine creation? Examples of non negotiable beliefs that drive knowledge seeking. Not doubts or deceptive pretensions but perceptions. Inherent byproducts of the relative nature of knowledge that drive the effort to expand the domain of absolute truths. To seek you need to believe. The slate can be kept clean only by testing, validating the hypotheses/beliefs that knowledge throws up as perceptions.
Conditioning comes from acceptance of vox populi opinion/norms/dogma, without thought. Awareness, No Mind results from clarifying belief emerging from perceptions that arise from knowledge....to absolute Truths.
Can one have an open mind till one believes it is possible!.
Arun - "Awareness can be total, and understood to be so only by the acceptance that what one is seeing is the absolute truth, freeing one of the need to understand it further. The process is the issue".....
Total Awareness is ONLY when there are no adjectives--neither acceptance.
Me - "Total Awareness is ONLY when there are no adjectives.." Great! Guess if you adjectivise he adjective awareness, it'll become to superlative for acceptance anyway! I don't know if it's just the semantics or something more, that is putting awareness and understanding beyond my reach. I think I'll stick with the realities I seem to comprehend!