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idea of science is that one day will come when there will be no more unknown left; all unknown would have become known. That is the goal of science.
Religion begins with the third category: the unknowable. It is neither a matter of knowing nor a matter of not knowing. You are not ignorant of it and you are not knowledgeable about it. It transcends both, it stands behind both. It stands behind all divisions and dualities.
"TO KNOW IS A DELUSORY WAY OF THINKING..."
If somebody says, "I have known Tao, I have known truth, I have known God, I have known Dhamma," know perfectly well that he has been living in an illusion, because it is the knower and can never become the known.
"TO KNOW IS A DELUSORY WAY OF THINKING AND NOT TO KNOW IS A MATTER OF INSENSIBILITY."
Those who think "We don't know," are simply insensible, and those who think "We know," are only egoistic. You have to drop both -- you have to drop your egoistic ideas of knowing and you have to drop your insensibilities. You have to become more sensitive and more egoless. And then happens a transcendence. Then life becomes way simple uncomplicated, but tremendously mysterious.
"IF ONE CAN REALIZE THE TAO UNMISTAKABLY..."
Remember, Nan Chuan says, "If one can realize..." It is not a question of knowing or not knowing but a question of realizing that "I am it!" It is a recognition. If one can recognize...
"IF ONE CAN REALIZE THE TAO UNMISTAKABLY..."
If you have any suspicion, if there is some wavering, if you are still doubtful whether this is so or not, that simply means you are still in the world of duality. When one transcends the dual there is no doubt left. Doubt is the shadow of duality. So when one recognizes one's nature it is indubitable, it is unmistakably so. There is no question that whether it is right or wrong: it is self-evident.
"IF ONE CAN REALIZE THE TAO UNMISTAKABLY, HIS MIND WILL BE LIKE THE GREAT SPACE..."
Like sky, unbounded, open on all the sides, infinite. It will be vast, immeasurable. It will be void -- it will be absolutely empty of all content. It will be just a mirror reflecting nothing, just a silent lake,
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