We have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels our recovery search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, we actually distance ourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.
The Unknown is more vast, more open, more peaceful, and more freeing than you ever imagined it would be. If we don't experience it that way, it means you're not resting there; you're still trying to know. That will cause you to suffer because you're choosing security over Freedom. When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, our boundaries begin to dissolve. We realise, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that we have no idea who or what we are. A few minutes ago, we knew who we were—we had a history and a personality—but from this place of not knowing, we question all of that.
The recovered live in the Unknown and understand that the only reason they know what they are is because they rest in the Unknown moment by moment without defining who they are with the mind. We can imagine how easy it is to get caught in the concept of the Unknown and seek that instead of the Truth. If we seek the concept, we'll never be free, but if we stop looking to myths and concepts and become more interested in the Unknown than in what we know, the door will be flung open. Until then, it will remain closed.
We who have never meditated come to our rooms and have a deep experience of the Unknown, and we've known many who remain in the trance because they stay with the mind's techniques and strategies. There is no prerequisite for experiencing the Unknown. Everyone has equal access to it.
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