Wrote July 1, 2018 in Draper, UT Prison by Jacob Edmond Kerr
“Knowing is not Knowing” – Lao Tzu (Tao De Ching). “Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know” – Apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 8:2. I love how both ancient spiritual text from the Asian region and also text from the new testament in the Holy Bible speak of this. Recently I challenged myself with the thought that everything of the mind is relative and knowing is absolute. I have not been able to come up with anything that is not relative when it comes to things of the mind or knowledge (and many other things such as time). So in conclusion: “Knowing is not Knowing.” Because if you truly knew then you would know that knowing is nothing but an illusion.
Owner of Nothing
In 1 Corinthians 4:7 Apostle Paul states: “For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it why do you boast as you did not?” When thinking or meditating on this I think about how everything we think we know came from something we read from a book, heard in a classroom, experienced from someone or something else. All these things came from someone or something else. The Ego likes to claim them as its own when in all reality it never was and never will be. The Ego tends to identify and boast about all these things it claims as it’s own. As if it is the originator of these things. It acts like it is the owner of all it receives when in all reality it is the owner of nothing.
Boasting in the Lord
If this is true which it seems to be then who or what is the owner of all these things, there has to be an originator. I believe God is the one and only owner or originator of everything. If this is true then what Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1:31 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord” makes sense because to boast in anything else is to boast in the Lord since everything is of the Lord. So “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs will be the Kingdom of heaven” blessed are the humble, the ones who know they know nothing and are humble and willing enough to accept this. “Deny Thyself” – Jesus Christ. “Oh, father I thank you for concealing these things from the clever and learned and revealing them to the simple.” – Jesus Christ.