Unlearning
A bowl of wisdom-fruit
In contemporary Western culture, we are taught that knowledge takes no space and that we can store within our brains thousands, even millions, of data input, facts, and hard evidence about reality and life itself. So, we keep thriving for it, learning, reading, and “improving.” But we get in trouble once we reach the liminal edge of culture, the fundamental dynamic meaning of reality. In this liminal space, we are at the edge of the unknown, at the indecipherable language’s frontier. Of everything we don’t know, or ever will, nor understand.
This liminal space is not a storage area. It is a threshold of a dynamic, living flow of consciousness.
We have to unlearn to surrender to the flow in this deep space-time. Western culture is a storing construct, where everything needs to be stored and secured for fear of the unknown and the ultimate mystery of living things. So, we prefer not to vacate knowledge and open it to transformation. We feel deeply insecure about letting go. Letting go of references, margins, constraints, norms, or proven recipes. It seems safer to view reality through our accepted cultural lenses, so we let these modern eyeglasses shape what is perceived, bending what is to what is supposed to be, fitting it neatly to our individual needs, chopping its greater meanings to our unidimensional reality. In its myriad truths and paradoxical perspectives, we relinquish connection to what is. We become smaller. Alone. Insignificant. And we feel that incarceration within, constantly searching for more meaning. But we keep following the same recipe, the known and proven steps of storing and confining things to control ourselves and our immediate reality.
We are betraying life wisdom flow for the illusion of safety.
It’s like having a bowl of fruit that we eventually do not eat, and it decays. But we do everything we can to keep it forever, not letting the wisdom-fruit follow its natural cycle of renewal, attaching ourselves to beliefs we mistake for knowledge. Eventually, we never look for new wisdom-fruit. Remember that the only fruit that lasts forever is a plastic one, the same happens with fixed knowledge or perspectives. A reality built around dogmas becomes artificial and has no life force. An empty system without sacred meaning or entanglement. It doesn't co-create, for it only controls.
When we get to the edge of culture, and its accepted truths, we pass through a dense membrane of social consensus, dogmas, and beliefs. On the other side, there are a lot of ancient cosmic languages, connections, and relations. Strange wisdom-fruits we didn’t even believe could exist. We need to unlearn to embrace the mystery of this highly dynamic wisdom flow. To become humble again, to let all that is forgotten, all that seems impossible or mysterious, forging new relations to ancient rhythms. We find new possibilities for connections, embracing what is — every moment, just being present in the multilayered context of things. We learn by being present.
To surrender to a humble state is vital to let it all flow, letting go of the hierarchical mind. Wisdom is all around us, pulsating vibrantly within all living systems. We feel it in our bodies, becoming vessels through which all this rich consciousness can flow, leaving us awake like never before. More alive and participative in the reality of things.
