the hardest knowledge obviously is self- knowledge that's why the ancient Greeks like um uh Plato Socrates Socrates the main one said his main dictor is know thyself Know Thy that is that the most important thing in love life Socrates said he by the way he lived about the same time as the Buddha uh he said the most important thing is know thyself and that was inscribed at the Temple of Deli in ancient Greece know thyself another strange inscription and that takes us now to where we are going on the same temple in inscribed was another
was saying that for a long time people couldn't interpret they thought something was missing the other words on the temple was so on the other side of the temple you are in Greek you are and so the AR archaeologist looked and there's something missing here you are and they tried is there another word that you are but there was no other word you are know thyself you are then at some point somebody understood what it probably meant it was pointing to a deeper dimension of who you are but the real knowing yourself is not just
knowing the personality that's only one level it's not the deepest level of knowing yourself it's important too to know all the stuff that that runs you that that operates in you as a conditioning of your mind this kind of thing people go to a psychoanalyst for they want to find know thyself what the psychoanalyst or psychiatrist not psychiatrist I know psychoanalyst can do for you is it can show you all kinds of things from your past and if you go to a psycho analy list you can go for many years some people go for 20
years 20 30 years to a psycho Twi once or twice a week okay then it goes the story goes on and on and discover more and more intricate things about your childhood then then what happened and how did you feel about them and then what did your mother say when you and then up to a point is helpful but then this goes on and on and you get trapped in that level and it becomes more and more complex one level of knowing yourself is knowing how your ego operates being able to witness it for example
as I mentioned in an argument you become emotional and you witness it oh so the another faculty is there behind the conditioned mind that can observe what you're doing inste oh you're becoming very angry about nothing so you're maybe you're shouting but in the back there's something that there aisen it's an awareness it say you're shouting about nothing you're witnessing what the ego is doing this means that the beginning of the end of the ego the witnessing faculty is the awareness you are so if you translate it into you you'd have to say I am
okay I am and what am I so let's investigate now this level of deeper identity I call it the Deep eye as opposed to the surface eye the Deep eye to find that which is underneath the person and in order to find that the stream of thinking that sustains the personal sense of self needs momentarily come to a sensation and that's why I started this evening with observing your breath because that can bring about a brief sensation in the Stream of thinking sh and in that moment awareness remains Consciousness remains but but it doesn't become
thought and this is a very strange thing to realize from the egoic point of view so what says the ego it doesn't realize that that is of extraordinary importance to find that to discover that Dimension that is deeper than the egoic self that is a dimension of Consciousness prior to before it becomes thought so the most vital realization for you that is to realize that there are spaces in your mind that you just need to discover or really ultimately only one space you discover that there is a space in you where you can be conscious
without needing to think but you're very alert you're completely here another word for it some words can be helpful as pointers another word for it is stillness you discover a dimension of Stillness within you Stillness means Consciousness without the movement of thought wow and you can still perceive everything in fact you perceive it more acutely more deeply when you are not labeling mentally thought when you are not labeling mentally what you're perceiving you can look around flower room Sky everything is there you know what you're looking at without calling it anything without concept and you
haven't gone to sleep because normally humans becoming free of thinking the only way they can do that when they haven't awakened they have to go to sleep or they have to take some kind of drug that puts slows down your mind there may be a place for drugs in certain cases of sacral sacred surounding don't need to go there which takes too long but the the the discovery that that Stillness which is cons unconditioned Consciousness which is deeper in the person is always there but it's covered up by the noise of the mind and you
are completely identified with this surface movement so you can't find the Deeper Self where is in Normal peace and a deep sense of aliveness that could that gives you everything that you had been looking for as a surface egoic entity in this realm of this Physical Realm or this even psychological realm you were looking for that never finding this ultimate sense of being home having arrived you feeling at home in the Universe uh rather than being alienated alienation is a very common mental illness for millions of humans especially modern day humans uh so the most
important Discovery for you is discover there's something deeper in you than the you the person they are not separate in the same way that the Ripple on the surface of the ocean is not separate from the ocean the Ripple is a Surface phenomenon it's something that the ocean does and you are something that Consciousness Universal the one universal Consciousness that pervades the entire universe that is transcendent to this universe it is something that the that Consciousness does it creates the image of a person like the ocean produces a ripple or a wave on the surface
and there goes a little Ripple and it has a name whatever name you have for the you as the Ripple that's me and the Ripple is uneasy because it's surrounded by many many other Ripples and you never know what they want you some Rebels may be dangerous they don't want May defend yourself and others you think oh I if I incorporate this Ripple into myself I become a bigger Ripple I need you in other words you fall in love I'm not talking about real love I'm talking about falling in love which is come I need
you don't you dare leave me though so so the the rebel would lead to very uneasy existence because it doesn't know that it is part of the ocean you know by know that I'm talking about you as the human every every human is a ripple on the surface of being vastness of being of consciousness e
