Contemplating: Not-Knowing!
By prabinesh - updated: 6 years, 8 months ago - 1 message
Contemplating this idea by P.D Ouspensky, from his book - The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution:
Man does not know himself.
He does not know his own limitations and his own possibilities.
He does not even know how great an extent he does not know himself.
He has all sorts of wrong idea about himself.
First of all, he does not realize that he actually is a machine.
He has no independent movements, inside or outside of himself.
He is a machine which is brought into motion by external influences and external impacts.
We must understand that man can do nothing.
But he does not realize this and ascribes to himself the capacity to do.
Man cannot do.
Everything that man thinks he does, really happens.
It happens exactly as "it rains," or "it thaws."
Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine.
He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine.
