In what we might call the “Primary Transformation” that allows us to live with more love, compassion, and freedom, I think it’s illustrated quite nicely in the following way…
From… A fearful anxiousness in “I don’t know.”
To… A beautiful openness in “I don’t know.”
In many ways, it seems the human struggles both fearfully and painfully with not knowing, as if one “should know.” In this, we can easily cling to things we only think we know, and then defend those beliefs in fear of going back to the unknown.
Yet, the spiritual pointers throughout time have always hinted at making peace with the unknown. Call it faith, trust, surrender, or letting go. The pointer has been to see that the mind creates illusions and clings to them, and then we inevitably watch the collapse of those illusions. i.e. “I thought I knew something.”
The pointer is to know (connect with) what is real/true beyond these illusions, to see the illusions for the illusions, and to relax into the complete okayness of not knowing.
For me, I find it fascinating to watch that part of myself that rejects this, that refuses to embrace the reality of these illusions being illusions. Like… “Don’t take away the worth and love I’m looking for in other people or in the future.”
“Don’t send me back to the unknown, don’t send me back to… the present moment.”
Funny enough, looking back at this human journey, it’s always been this same fight, this struggle to capture something in other people or in the world (my illusions of these things), and I’ve never captured it in any meaningful way. If it ever appeared that I did capture it, I simply then became afraid of losing it; which… means, again, I clearly never actually captured it.
There’s always this brilliant invitation though, not a demand, but a compassionate invitation that says… “My dear, relax and see what’s true. That truth being… You don’t really know, and that’s totally okay; it’s always been that way. Stop worshiping the mind’s images and come home.”