Eat The Sandwich, Escape The Matrix

“(The) goal is to have no manifestation — to be Free. Be aware or conscious of your activity — all the time. How do you “know” when doing it? By thought only? If you do not “know,” that type of knowing is correct. To “know” means there is separation, there is the one who “knows” and there is also the what is “known.” When we can be one with what is happening there is nobody who “knows.””

—Yo Hoon, “Surfing the Timeless Wave: (Vol 1)”

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This book would seem very much to be the transcription and light editing of a series of lectures given by a genuinely enlightened contemporary master of non-dualistic thought. This is CHEWY stuff.

I cannot claim to “understand” the words above, but I can offer some reactions which, if I have chosen the right mentors and masters to evaluate my thoughts, seem to be heading in the right direction, even if I’m not “there”. (As if there is somewhere to “get to.” Sigh).

“How do you “know” when doing it? By thought only? If you do not “know,” that type of knowing is correct”

This would seem to be an inquiry into the ordinary usage of the term “know”. The verb “to know.” If you “know” by thought, that suggests an “I know!” moment, which begs the question “who am I? Who is the one who observes?” and suggests that that moment of observance, of thought, is possible only when separated from the thing observed or considered. You do not “know” in the moment, because there is no “I” in the moment. There…