Naoko Terai - adagio

"The Idea of Perfect Knowledge"

         Perfect knowledge.  This idea is a trap.  It's unattainable.  There will always be dimensions of ignorance about any subject.  That is, an unfinished part of coming to know a thing or situation.  Knowledge will never have the final word.  But understanding transcends the knowledge and the ignorance and sees both as aspects of the one perception.  This is the open-ended immeasurable experience of infinite awareness.

       Infinite awareness includes infinitely more aspects than just space and time.  It also includes infinite qualities, infinite perceptions and modes of being.  Infinite sensations, memories, and perceptions.  Infinite experiences.  Infinite possibilities and incarnations into infinite manifestations of realities.

       As ego incarnations we do not consciously experience all these infinities simultaneously.  But they are always at hand and available to us to move our attention into.  The ego will have to dissolve to enter some of these dimensions but there remain infinitely other dimensions to explore in ego form.  And we may travel in and out of both modes at will.

       (by James Harold Bath)