Knowledge

 Knowledge is the accumulation of words or the strengthening of in prejudices and beliefs. Words, thoughts, are the framework in which the self concept exists and relates. 

 This concept contracts or expands through experience and knowledge, but the hard core of the self remains, and mere knowledge or learning can never dissolve it.

 One wants to know and build a life around it, coming with its fears and hopes, frustrations and illusions, struggling forever discovering and needing to acquire more knowledge, which will only act as a further barrier to the coming into being in the that state of true knowledge.

There must be freedom to discover and not guidance, if one is guided, one is no longer free, and one becomes a slave to the one who knows.

Knowledge is always of the past and what one knows is the past.

The strengthening of the past is the way of knowledge. What may be uncovered may be totally new, and your knowledge, which is the accumulation of the past, cannot fathom the new, the unknown.

The self is the past, the power to accumulate things and the virtues of ideas.

Knowledge must cease for the other virtues to be.  A mind that is free from past knowledge is free from that self and only the passive awareness of the truth with regard to knowledge is the answer.

 

Wisdom is the way in which to express life as one applies that knowledge in oneself.

One learns to follow the will of the divine by practicing self-denial.