"All you can see and know is not you" - What does this statement mean?

Question

"All you can see and know is not you" - What does this statement mean?

Answer 1

Its like looking in a mirror---you see your reflection---you know its you---but its not you ---because its a reflection of you!

Answer 2

Could this mean that what we see we judge incorrectly?  When we know All as I AM THAT, then judgment is gone.  

Answer 3

Only something that comes from within is you, everything else from outside is someone or something else.

I think.

ook.  gimme nana.

Answer 4

I think it means that all that is picked up and interpreted by the senses is not "you" it is all the material of this reality- this life. Even your thoughts are not "you". Even thinking that there is a "you" is not true because there is no you- there is the open emptiness/ clear light.

  

Answer 5

everything that you can see and know, are things that are not you

Answer 6

"All you can see and know is not you"

Its an incomplete statement... in that it is true but represents only the partial truth... and partial truth can easily be misunderstood and misleading.

The game of words... and Oh... how it has even led to wars.

Perhaps the first step to understanding the oneness in the universe is to acknowledge all that is around you is one with you... here you can say "All that you can see and know is you". But once you have understood this, then the next step is to know that you are even greater and beyond this and so now your mantra changes to whats stated in your question... "All you can see and know is not you"... because you are much more, much greater, much divine than just that.

The above also explains that although two statements may be true in their own sense but one may fall short and appear false and completely contradictory in a changed situation. Hence the drama and confusion in the teachings of great teachers and religions.

And so, why would you want to restrict yourself to what you think you see as true and what you think you know as true. Lets go beyond... for there lies our true identity.

Answer 7

All our seeing and knowing is filtered either by the limitations of our senses or by thoughts; they can not comprehend reality as it is; it can only capture a part of me, not the whole of me. I am much more than what the senses and thoughts, seeing and knowledge dish out of me!  

Answer 8

You are the seer not the seen.

Answer 9

This speaks to the limitations of humanity's ability to know using the senses or the mind only, for these serve the bodyform that exists temporarily and in a constant state of change/impermanency.  They cannot conceive/perceive beyond the constraints of the relative world/duality world.  The Absolute cannot be known with the mind nor with the senses, for these are bound within the temporary and finite bodyform.  Only by freeing from the mind and the senses can the one (you) be experienced in the One.  "You" are contained within the Infinite Eternal Unknowable, an aspect/agent of the Absolute/Source/All That Is.

i am Sirius  

Answer 10

There broadcasts on television a cartoon advertisment, which I believe is a company whose business is in cable or phone sales; their pitch is the ownerships, distributions, and hawking of their technological wares to -- in reality -- an unsuspecting and guileless public, one which is sure to be later dissatisfied with the product being publicized and sold, as the public always 'is' dissatisfied after trying; this, with regard to the new cell, internet, cable, and gadget technologies businesses and with all the convoluted contractual double-talk and legalese.

And, now, in this ad, there sets a family gathered round the front porch of their house... where out in the distance amid a stand of trees comes pouncing this gargantuan of a Being, a colllage of all manner of things, made of tv sets, jetsam and flotsam, junk of all kinds as one would find in their garages, and all manner of discarded miscellany and who knows else just what.  Then this behemoth of a thing makes his pitch, endeavoring to impress upon this swell family the economy of what he has to offer them and the indispensibility of his to their sense of needs.  And there they stand, smiling, a countenance the family finds most impressive.  Now done and point made, he then goes swaggering off into the distance, proud of what he is and what he has to impart and offer the world.  And the ad ends.

This is who and what we too often see and too often who we are, an amalgam of things, both inanimate and organic, likened to anything that comes from out of a landfill, the trash bins and dung heaps of the world.  And with these things, and from the very time of birth, we wade into these heaps of junk and jad, pick out what to us impresses and we think shall impress.  We then commence to pile on layer upon layer, atop years if not ages of still other things -- fruit peelings, melon rhines, rotting meat bones, scraps of metal, shorn wood, box tops and plastic wrappings, old worn-out clothing, a smattering of dead animals here now there and all manner and permutations of despicable unmentionable things and odors, and which energies thereafter are sensed and felt for blocks, maybe miles away by birds and night crawlers, and which draws in upon us variants of salvagers who believe they in turn can find somewhat use in these scraps of things.

This all is what we are given to, and what we are given to be, as well to have others be given to whom and what we are.  

We are not what or who we have been given to be, somewhat likened to an encasement of granite that only eons of hammering blows can shatter, nor are we who we once were -- but we are who we are! -- shorn of all accoutrement and affectation.  We are little or none of these sheaths and layers except as a mere skin as best suited to have and don for sake of our survival in this, the coarsest of worlds.  

And the apparent absence of evidence of whom we truly are is not evidence of absence of whom we are and are ever becoming, though the veil that we wear all about us would prove this an otherwise untruth.  

We mistakenly are given to be somewhat we are not -- mistakenly again given to be who we think we are, and who others think we are; but finally and ulitmately we are who we are, which true spark and light is a matter and force and being who is this and more.

Answer 11

You are not your mental and physical possessions, all you can see and know is not you. You are not the body (ultimately, right now it is an expression of your source), for you say: my body, my arms.. yes, you use the body to experience, and to perceive. It is not the ear, that is hearing, it is you, it is not the eyes that see by themselves, they are instruments that you use to perceive.... who are you?

Answer 12

It means that your greatest reality lies not in the objects of consciousness but in pure consciousness itself.