The Difference between Self-Knowledge and Psychology

The aim of Self-Knowledge is to find out who you are. This is an experiential type of knowledge. Experiential means you know the self by standing as the self, not as a separate thing.

Of course even now we are the Self. But now we mix up our own Self-Nature, the seer of objects, with the things that we see. That’s when we feel limited by these things. The reason that objects feel too limited for us is because or original nature is much more expansive than that which can be held by an object.

Our nature has no boundaries
Taking our Self-Nature to be an object is like taking space to be limited by the walls of a room. Then when there is an earthquake and the walls crash down, the room space again merges with space. But what really happened? Space was never really limited to a room. The same space was both inside and outside the room. It was also in and through the walls of the room. When the walls fell down nothing really happened to space. It was the same before and after the room was destroyed.

In the same way, we were never limited by the things that we see. To know if this is true or not, return your identity to its original place as unlimited Consciousness and Bliss and stand there free from the objects that you see.
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Thoughts are just an object in our awareness

Thoughts are one of the objects that we see. When we take our identity to be limited to our thoughts, we feel defined by these thoughts. This is unfortunate because our thoughts can be affected by many things that are out of our control like a chemical imbalance in the body and Alzheimer’s disease.

But once we blame thoughts for our limitations and suffering the next step is how to make our thoughts better. That’s where psychology comes in. But changing our thoughts is like trying to make the room bigger. No matter how big we make it, the room will never contain all of the space. In the same way, no matter how good we make the thoughts they will never be an accurate reflection of the changeless Consciousness and Bliss, which is the backbone of our existence.

Our nature is the stillness the see the fluttering mind
So no matter how we attempt to improve our thoughts we will never be able to hold them in the state that we want. That’s because the nature of thoughts is movement. But if you ask one simple question you will discover the reality behind your mind. How do I know about change? You know change because you are free from change. Your nature is the stillness that sees the ever fluttering mind.

And so with the slightest shift of your identity from an object that you see to the ultimate subject, you can stand in the freedom that you always wanted, unconcerned by your thoughts.

The more we attempt to change our thoughts the more we feel caught by them
Attempting to change our thoughts is like attempting to still the waves in a lake. The more we try, the bigger the waves become. Similarly, the more we attempt to change our thoughts the more we feel caught in them. That’s because we feel defined by what we think. But if we can find our real identity, we will find the peace that passes all understanding, unaffected by the thoughts in our mind. Standing here we will become the expansiveness that we really are.

So unlike psychology, we never define you by the thought patterns in your mind. That’s because you are much brighter and much more expansive than your thoughts can ever tell. Stand in your real nature, without doing anything else, your thoughts may start to reflect the peace of your own Being. And if your thoughts do not seem to reflect your natural state you will still be at peace. This is the peace that passes all understanding. It is a state of being, not a state of mind.

Feel free to ask questions
Now I want you to experience your Self-Nature in its full glory. So please feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows you to abide in your natural freedom.

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