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Here’s the problem: How can you be infinity when you feel like a regular person; a person who goes to work where you’re the teacher or the engineer. You come home where you’re the father or mother to your children. When you visit your mother you’re a son or daughter to your mother. You sit down tired after a hard day and read the newspaper, eat dinner, watch a little TV, do some work, kiss your spouse good night and then go to bed. After work, three days a week you go to various classes where you are a student. In all of this how can you say that you are infinity?

Yes, in the morning you might try to meditate only to end up thinking about what you have to do today. So maybe you try watching your breath, and then you forget after a few minutes. Where in all this could you possibly be infinite?

Right here is the starting point for the person of Knowledge. Without puffing themselves up or putting themselves down they can take an honest look at where they stand. That’s why I think it is said that the ordinary mind is the Tao. Without the need for any special image, you have the potential to stand free without any image at all. I know for sure that without any image to uphold and maintain, life gets very relaxing and you get very free.

I mention this because this investigation is supposed to be experiential. How can it be experiential if you don’t start with what you experience? After a thorough investigation, you get excited as you see that you are in a deeper place than you had ever imagined. Then your experience of life changes, right from the core. Indeed, the amazing thing about Self-Knowledge is that it will change your experience in ways that you never thought possible. Know yourself in a deeper way, and your experience of life changes.

I point out how vast and experiential this meditation is so you don’t take these pointers as intellectual exercises. Rather once you are satisfied that Self-Knowledge is a worthwhile goal, put in the energy to see fully where these words point. This is not physical energy or even mental energy, but the energy to question the things you take to be just normal, and the energy to stick to it until you come to deeper answers.

In the next section you will see some of your assumptions, and the things you take to be true, come under fire. I only hope that you can open your mind a little; just enough to follow this reasoning to its end.

I don’t want you to become a master logician. I just want you to take a peek right into your own being. Don’t accept this on faith. Rather read it with an open, but questioning mind. Ask, “Is there a possibility that this could be true, and if so, how is this true?”