Crisis in Conciousness

Approach to the Immeasurable

The following mathematical analogy might help us to understand the problem of man’s perpetual search for Truth and why this is forever evading him.  Neither the truth of Non-Duality, nor the geometrical center of a sphere (or circle) can be visualized, measured, or conceived of in any way.  For it is wholly intangible and, literally, altogether out of this world! We can make concepts, words, referring to it, but obviously the word, the symbol, is not the thing–just as the dot at the center of the Figure is not the geometrical center point, which is dimensionless and cannot therefore be seen or even imagined,

The analogy can perhaps be clarified in the following way: the Truth is like the invisible hub of a wheel (see Figure).  Its rim represents the shallow mind which approaches every problem intellectually and thereby always stays on the periphery.  When we become a bit more aware and the mind wakes up as to the inadequacy of all intellectualization, a new factor comes into being and we are coming a little closer to the possibility of discovering the truth, without however as yet being capable of dropping the intellectual process altogether.  At this stage of understanding, the spokes of the wheel may represent arrows pointing the way to the Center: thinning, feeling, emotions etc.--all the modes of consciousness inherent in Duality, but now awakened and tending towards self-realization.  

Now as long as my center point has any dimension at all, it is not the geometrical hub of the wheel, I have not found a Reality, Truth, God, or whatever you like to call it.  Only when I can jump across that last barrier and lose one dimension completely–which means to lose the self, the experiencer, the thinker–is there the dissolving of the observer-object relationship with its self-enclosing limitations.  For is not the experiencer but the sum total of his conditioning, and therefore his actions in the present not completely determined–that is, limited–by this residue of the past?  This is why the spokes of the wheel in our Figure can also be taken to represent the various so-called “paths” towards liberation, none of which can jump the final obstacle and attain the Unknowable, that which lies wholly beyond the mind.  These are doomed to failure from the start because they all have their point of departure in (and so are bound by) the thinker, who exercises will and desire to reach his self-projected goal.  Subsequent chapters will endeavor to clarify this situation further.

When I dig deep, when I inquire fundamentally with tremendous energy, only then I may hit upon the kernel of truth which is the unknown, the Unlimited.