[Angela]

Originally Posted by AndyMartin

Knowing doesn't come from mind. The mind cannot comprehend the whole, so it breaks of bits and pieces and tries to understand them on their own, in isolation from the other fragments and completely removed from the context of the whole. The problem is, you can't reassemble bits and pieces into transcendent truth. So anything conceived from thought can at best point towards the ineffable truth.

Knowing comes from our true nature, it comes before thought, before interpretation, before storytelling. All of our cultural myths are stories told of interpretations of experiences of knowing. So they are most useful in the context from which they arose, but they are not absolute truth.

Don't doubt that there is something absolute, but only when you return to the stillness before thought can you experience knowing. The important thing is not the interpretation or the story that comes from it, but what it teaches you about how to live in the world, what it teaches about integrity and compassion and the development of consciousness. That is emptiness made form.

So in other words, no.