The Process of Unlearning

Essentially what we reach for in spiritual practice is a reversal of things that we commonly would strive for on the earthly plane – it is a letting go. Being as a little child in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven involves forgetting your differences and judgments. Arguably we are encased in flesh because we have identified so much with this life. We are all bits of God who have hidden themselves in the world of time and form, reveling in the tension of separateness to be able to feel the thrum of the dualities such as love and hate, power and weakness, pain and pleasure, and so on. After some time living on the Earth plane, we get lost and become so fixated on matter that we lose sense of where we really came from – Nothingness! To be born necessitates having to die someday because that is the way of form – like the alchemists say: solve et coagula. In the world, gathering knowledge is given great respect because it can pave the way to a great career and give you the ability to do things. However, part of the true purpose of the Path is the Forgetting – the Leaving Behind. At the same time, though, it can be said that in approaching the Spirit, you are learning how to forget. It’s kind of like trying to describe to someone what the sound of one hand clapping is…