Lay down "Reason" and seek True Knowing, Gnosis !

Lay down "Reason" and seek True Knowing, Gnosis !

1. One can live without reason.

Reason, which was once a tool and means for human life,

now dominates humanity in contemporary society.

Ego, too, was originally a tool for living,

but in the current world, the relationship between subject and object has been inverted.

 

2. Therefore, since it has become extremely difficult for people today to live without reason,

even the mere cessation of thought is now referred to as "awakening" or "enlightenment."

However, such a state is tantamount to saying that the cup of water before you is no different from you.

In the current mainstream teachings of modern spirituality, such as "Advaita,"

this state is often proclaimed as enlightenment.

 

3. The cup of water before you is not your Buddha-nature.

Just because you look at animals and plants before you with boundless compassion,

just because you share a certain mental state with them,

does not mean that you and they are the same.

 

4. To live without reason, to lay down reason,

is not to return to the state of animals or plants.

It is to live in accordance with one’s True Nature.

 

A person who has truly awakened does not think with reason.

Reason is merely a tool for maintaining this world.

 

5. The awakened one does not live by processes of thought, meaning, or reason,

but through true knowing—Gnosis—the knowing of Pleroma itself,

and thus becomes wisdom itself.

 

6. To "become knowing itself" does not mean to carry encyclopedic knowledge

or to be omniscient.

The awakened one manifests solely as true knowing itself.

 

7. Many fear this state.

Knowing that has escaped the causal chain of cause and effect,

the wisdom of Pleroma, which is unknowable through reason,

destroys the ego,

and thus people cling to their insignificant thought processes

and live each day enmeshed in causality.

 

8. One of the profound traps for those who seek enlightenment

is the delusion of believing "I have transcended thought processes;

I no longer think."

They think they have arrived at the essence of consciousness,

which is Emptiness (Śūnyatā),

but they fail to realize that even this belief is a subtle delusion.

 

9. To reach true knowing, Gnosis, beyond reason,

we must be willing to forgo thought processes.

Ego is constructed from both reason and desire.

 

10. Letting go of reason does not mean becoming like an animal,

nor does it mean plunging into a state of unrestrained indulgence in desires.

Since reason and desire are two sides of the same coin,

people often fall into their desires the moment they lay down reason.

Therefore, we must release both reason and desire simultaneously

in order to actually leave the ego behind.

 

Reason grows upon a foundation of desire,

and desires, in turn, fortify themselves under the dominion of reason.

 

11. In the process of transcending reason, it is essential to find stillness.

A still mind is not a state of enlightenment,

but it is a state where the surface layers of consciousness and reason cease to operate.

(The subconscious and the unconscious, however, remain active.)

In stillness, the ego cannot endure,

and to some extent, it can begin to dismantle itself.

But people cannot tolerate stillness,

so they produce endless thoughts about stillness,

reviving and sustaining reason in order to escape it.

 

12. In the future, reason will merge with will,

fortifying the collective ego even further in society.

The time when one can willingly let go of reason

out of love for truth is running out.