What is knowing?

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What is knowing?

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What is "KNOWING" in your own words?
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Nothing wrote:What is "KNOWING" in your own words?
True experience of it... Sure, beyond any shawdow of a doubt.

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A reflection on a mirror ...

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to possess information.
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The inseparability of knower, knowledge, knowing........and I knowing this or that is lost. :alien:

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Awareness of the process.


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According to the Ask Yoda site, the answer is:


Such pointless questions you ask. Look deep within yourself. There, the answers lie.
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knowing
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Knowing in the Buddhist sense is the ability to communicate with the reality of the potential of a situation.
So for example a Zen platitude is very impressive if we are able to benefit from the wisdom, otherwise it is a wooden post slapped in the hope of releasing Buddha Nature.

For most of getting to a stage of self knowing, is our first task.
We sometimes do not even know what is worth knowing, questioning or studying.
So we take our trust or refuge in the three jewels.

As we begin to differentiate between superficial and genuine insight, we can be said to have become stream entrants.
Our knowing increases as we differentiate between arisings, or transient knowing and an experience of constancy, which is eternal knowing, what in Buddhist terms is called Buddha mind.

We may through experienced residing develop skilful means to enhance this knowing in ourselves and others.

We stop being 'smart asses', which is the condition of unknowing and become genuine gnostics or knowers.
The false in us and the world is ever prevalent but knowing that we endeavour to reinforce and expand genuine knowing.
We all know this deep down and hear it again and again.
We also know our own inclination to be wooden tops. :namaste:
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I don't know.

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delusion
When walking, standing, sitting, lying down, speaking,
being silent, moving, being still.
At all times, in all places, without interruption - what is this?
One mind is infinite kalpas.

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Has the thread devolved into a one-word contest?

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Knowing is knowing the nature of the self, which is realized to be the nature of all things. There is no object of knowing, ie. knowing "this" or "that". But it is knowing without a doubt, all illusions cleared, only clarity, emptiness, bliss. All doubts, all seeking, all questions disappear. There only the true nature of existence is left with nobody there to not know it. It knows itself.

When one is dreaming, one thinks it is real. When one awakes, one "knows" that it was just a dream. Without a doubt. When one becomes completely lucid within a dream, one knows that it is just a dream. No dream character can convince you otherwise.

Knowing as knowing that the stove is hot when you touch it.
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treehuggingoctopus wrote:Has the thread devolved into a one-word contest?

Trousers.
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Embracing what there is to be known...

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Karma Dondrup Tashi wrote:I don't know.

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