Waking Up in a Busy World: Knowledge and Letting Go

Let all go-

the big small middling

tall bigger really

the biggest and all

things--let all go

dear

so comes love.

e.e. Cummings

from Let it go https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/115198-let-it-go----the-smashed-word-broken-open-vow

This cumming's poem, which I heard for the first time in another great talk from Tara Brach ( see below) addresses two great ideas that have recently been poured into my mind ( or the universal mind that I just clicked into lol) . The ideas evolve around the need to put away conceptual knowledge for presence which is Love and therefor ( the second idea) be able to let go into the uncertainty of what is.

How did I come up with these ideas?

By listening...by listening, fully and deeply as Krishnamutri expresses we should do in one of these videos in order to get past the wall that acts as a thick impenetrable veil between the ego's version of reality and Self.... to two seemingly very different videos which are, in actuality, discussing the same thing....though terminology differs greatly.

Listening with Total Attention

I listened to an interesting but very circular discussion between David Bohm and Krishnamutri about the limiting nature of "knowledge"...and more importantly, our identification with this "knowledge" which to me ( though it may not have been defined as such) is the ego. The two had a very long winded back and forth, round about discussion on how our need to accumulate knowledge, believe we are that knowledge, creates a wall between our little self (egos) and our true Self. This "knowledge" prevents us from "knowing" that we are "Love and awareness". It is only when we tap into that essence or presence that comes with full attention/awareness that takes us into the moment of egoless no thought ( not the terminology used in the video) will we be able to truly absorb the truth.

Then today I listened to Tara Brach speak to the idea of Letting Go into uncertainty and insecurity. Though they may not seem to be linked, I instantly seen the connection between the two videos and felt , once again, the serendipitous nature of my happening upon these two videos. The key point in both videos was that Love and awareness is who we really are and once we , in the moment, get beyond "knowledge", which can truly be in the way of us seeing clearly, and adopt a "beginner's mind" we can let go into uncertainty, into "not knowing". Krishnamutri uses the practice of "listening" to allow that presence and essence to emerge. He tells Bohm that if he were able to listen fully and attentively to what Bohm had to say...there would be no thought while he was listening. His full attention would take him into that space and for a moment the wall would disappear. At one point in Tara Brach's video, she relays the story of a stressed meditation teacher who finds his ability to let go through...listening to the sounds around him. The point is...stilling ourselves, getting quiet and being mindful can help us to transcend the wall. Listen to stillness!

What we need to do is let go. Let go of our need for more knowledge, our need for judgments, our need for more roles to create an idea of self, our need to protect and defend these ideas (as the first lines in Cummings poem [ which I did not include here] allude to), and our need to fix and control the outside world so that we feel safe in it.

When we are able to let go, we can open up to what is. We can surrender into the uncertainty of this human experience. We will then feel the spacious "emptiness" of peace. The wall that Krishnamutri and David Bohm discussed in detail...will simple fade away if we can do that.

Hmmm! Something to think about.

All is well in my world.

Tara Brach ( May 2020)) Embracing Uncertainty-Sheltering in Love-Part IX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGSCUb98Uw

J. Krishnamutri & David Bohm ( Jan 2014) Brockwood Park 1980-The Ending of time-Conversation 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHWyxci5egg

And I wrote this back in May, 2018 : https://dale-lynwritin.blogspot.com/2018/05/steps-to-waking-up.html