Is not knowing
the same as ignorance?
At first, it may seem so.
Both appear as absence of knowledge.
Yet they arise
from entirely different vibrations.
Ignorance is not simply not knowing.
It is not knowing
while believing you know.
It is closed,
defended by Ego,
anchored in fear and habit.
Ignorance resists new insight,
hides behind certainty,
does not ask,
does not listen,
does not see.
Ignorance is blindness,
not lack of information,
but lack of openness.
Not knowing, in contrast,
is awareness awake.
It is space
where need to understand dissolves,
where control and explanation fall away.
Not knowing is humility,
resting in mystery.
It is openness
through which Wisdom may rise.
Not knowing is quiet.
Receptive.
Free.
In spiritual practice,
not knowing is sacred.
It is return to presence
beyond Mind.
Ignorance is unconscious.
Thoughtless awareness is awake.
It sees without reacting.
It holds thought and emotion
without identification.
Ignorance is closed.
Not knowing is open.
Ignorance is defended.
Not knowing is humble.
Ignorance is unconscious.
Thoughtless awareness is Presence.
The more we rest in not knowing,
the more we return to Peace.
From that Peace,
knowing may come,
not from Mind,
but rising gently
from within.
Om