what is not stable, and realized that it cannot know true stability, there is the
movement of harmony—because the mind does not know.
The mind then moves from the truth of not-knowing. That truth is stable. The
mind that does not know is in a state of learning. But the moment it says: I have
learnt, it has stopped learning, and that is the stability of division. So the mind
says: I do not know; and the truth is that it does not know. That is all. That gives
the mind the quality of learning, and in learning there is stability. Stability is in
the learning, not in the ‘I have learnt’.
See what all this does to the mind: It completely unburdens the mind, and that
unburdening is freedom—the freedom of not-knowing. See the beauty of it—the
not-knowing, therefore freedom.
What happens to that part of the brain which functions in knowledge? To
function from memory to memory is part of its function, isn’t it? The brain finds
tremendous security in knowledge. Biologically speaking, that security is
necessary, otherwise it could not survive. Now, what happens to the brain which
says: I really don’t know anything apart from what is necessary for biological
survival? The brain which was once tethered is now free; it is not occupied; it can
act but it is not occupied. That brain has never been touched; it is no longer
capable of being hurt. There is a new brain born, or the old brain is purged of its
preoccupations.
Rishi Valley
28 January, 1971