Understanding Truth

Difficulty about understanding truth is that we have to be in the frame of mind to understand it, and we cannot force ourselves into that frame of mind. We cannot understand it with our intellect. This is the difficulty. Once we try to compartmentalize it, we've lost it. Once we believe we can do anything to understand it, we've lost it. All philosophy and spiritual concepts are to help the mind to understand, and that is helpful to integrate the mind. However, Truth is in awareness,not thinking or understanding. Truth is awareness. But how to be aware of awareness? This is where the realization of Non-doing comes in. If we could we go back to that infancy stage when were babies unable to do anything, we could understand Non-doing better. All we could do was be aware. We did not know who we were or why we were here, nor did we care. We were just simply aware. If we were unhappy we would cry. If we were happy we would laugh, etc. Our challenge now is to find the purity of our infant mind we had before we were filled with all these concepts. To do this we must be able to drop back behind the mind and watch all thoughts and desires without conceptualizing and compartmentalizing them. And the really crazy thing is we can't make this happen. We can, however, practice truthfulness and live authentic lives. The aliveness of our authenticity will bring us to the awareness of Truth.