The one who knows

"The one who knows" is the Master of the Master of all problems.

But we need to use "the one who knows" to find the solution.

"A" WAY, we look into the nature of "the one who knows", in order to understand it, to see it for what it really is. Mind you, its a very slippery exercise. Even some meditation masters say it's a wrong way to practice. How can you use an eye to look for itself?

Of course we can, and that is the beauty of it...

When we see "the one who knows" for what it really is, it is no longer the problem...

"the one who..." is deleted from the equation.

Peeling an onion layer by layer, until there is nothing left. When all layers are gone, it is empty. That is where "..." can be found, as clear as looking directly into the sun...

"'Your question should not be phrased in this way: Where do these four great elements — the earth property, the liquid property, the fire property, and the wind property — cease without remainder? Instead, it should be phrased like this:

Where do water, earth, fire, & wind

have no footing?

Where are long & short,

coarse & fine,

fair & foul,

name & form

brought to an end?

"'And the answer to that is:

Consciousness without feature,

without end,

luminous all around:

Here water, earth, fire, & wind

have no footing.

Here long & short

coarse & fine

fair & foul

name & form

are all brought to an end.

With the cessation of [the activity of] consciousness

each is here brought to an end.'"

That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, Kevatta the householder delighted in the Blessed One's words.

DN11
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I am going back to peel an onion...