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tremendously mysterious.
Henry miller was ill -- and he is very old; I think eighty-two or eighty-four -- and somebody told him, 'You are ill, and nobody knows -- you may be on your deathbed. If you were to assert your whole understanding of life in one word before you die, what would you say?'
He opened his eyes and he said, 'Mystery!'
That condenses the whole experience.
So people who claim to know are the most stupid people. Wisdom comes through recognition of tremendous ignorance.
So abide in this 'I don't know'. Let this be your temple. Relax into it, rest in this ignorance. It is pure, it is innocent... it is blissful. And if you can rest in your ignorance, you will have peace and you will have bliss and you will have all that a man needs to. But abide in this 'I don't know'. Let this be your meditation...
And whenever knowledge arises, laugh at it -- you are again becoming foolish. Whenever you start thinking, 'I know this' -- beware! You are getting into the trap of illusion again.
Ignorance is primordial. It is the very foundation of existence. You bring it with you, and when you go, you take it with you. And all knowledge is just like a dream... passing phases. It is amazing that people never look into their knowledge, otherwise they would be surprised that they don't know anything! When Ouspensky went to his master, Gurdjieff, for the first time, Gurdjieff looked at him -- he was a man of knowledge, this ouspensky. He was already world-famous, a great author, a mathematician... very knowledgeable. His book, 'tertium organum' -- one of the most learned books ever -- had been recently published. Even in that book, ouspensky claimed that there were only three books in the world of any significance. First was aristotle's 'ORGANUM', second was Bacons's 'NOBLE ORGANUM', third was his book, 'TERTIUM ORGANUM'.
When he came to Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff looked into his eyes, gave him a piece of paper, and told him to go into the other room and write on one side of the paper what he knew, and on the other side what he didn't know.
Gurdjieff said, 'This is very significant, because only after you have done
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