From a site visitor: “You mention at the top of your webpage The Original Understanding, and I’ve seen the term in several of your postings but still haven’t seen an explanation that makes it clear what that is. Please clarify. Thanks.”
F.: Hello, and thanks for writing. You want the truth stated, but it can't be stated; you can, nevertheless, comprehend “The Original Understanding” by seeing how it allowed humans to function before programming and conditioning and concepts and dogma began to dominate the persons who are now scattered across the globe. The term refers to that which the earliest humans understood intuitively, to that which they "knew" but were not taught, to that which inspired them to behave naturally, and to that which did not need to be taught in order for them to function and to survive. The term refers to everything that was understood before some persons began dreaming up concepts and ideas and teachings and beliefs that were used to convey false and supernatural explanations for events that were totally natural happenings.
More accurately, since the truth cannot be stated, even “The Original Understanding” is a concept that is to be used and then discarded because “understanding” means “something that one becomes aware of as a result of thorough consideration.” The ancestors of modern humans considered nothing. They did not need to—and they could not have done so if they had wanted to—because they were free of a “thinking mind.” Instead, they functioned under the auspices of a working brain. Today, conditioning and programming have created a “need” that human ancestors never had because they had “The Original Understanding” that persons today do not have because of enculturation. Today, persons can only reach the understanding (which their predecessors had automatically) by carefully considering pointers and discarding all the lies they have been told are true. The earliest humans had no “thinking mind” to use to try to differentiate between true and false, so they never suffered that constant, internal chatter that now marks the human condition. That “need” only came about after the dreaming up of concepts and dogma and ideas and ideologies by men who would control people’s thoughts and behavior. So take the term as another thorn that can be used to remove thorns, but be prepared to eventually toss out all the thorns.
That said, the term can be used to point to the understanding that humans today are lacking, namely, an innate sense of the Authentic (Natural) Self—and the Authentic (Natural) Self only—that was “understood” intuitively until languages developed and were then used by some persons to share their dreamed up concepts. Prior to that time, humans lived in a natural, authentic manner. After the introduction of concepts and dogma and ideas, the corruption of the consciousness had an impact across the planet that resulted in the condition described by an Advaitan playwright who noted that, by the 16th century, all the world had become “a stage, and all the men and women, merely players.” The Original Understanding refers to the natural behavior that happened automatically among humans when the purified consciousness inspired normal behavior. That was the type of sane behavior that existed prior to the widespread programming of persons, programming that today inspires the playing of roles rather than the ability among humans to be authentic, genuine, natural, normal and constructive rather than phony, delusional, unnatural, supernatural and destructive.
It was the understanding that allowed the earliest humans to be "authentic"—to be natural—in that they were free of all of the lies that would eventually become commonly-held as truth across a globe filled with very confused persons. It was that “understanding”—those natural, motivating drives, if you will—that allowed humans to merely exist and to do what was required to maintain the consciousness. The result of such natural motivation and functioning was that humans behaved constructively rather than behaving in self-destructive ways. That happened because there was no false self, which is what drives modern persons to want to destroy self and which inspires some persons to eventually admit, “I don’t even know who I am.” The Original Understanding really points to the pure consciousness that did not inspire any such confusion because no lies had been taught and no false identities had been assigned; therefore, no thoughts had to be raised about true identity. For evidence of what it was like when humans functioned in that sane and natural fashion, go to the woods, observe the deer, and then live in that same natural way. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
F.: Hello, and thanks for writing. You want the truth stated, but it can't be stated; you can, nevertheless, comprehend “The Original Understanding” by seeing how it allowed humans to function before programming and conditioning and concepts and dogma began to dominate the persons who are now scattered across the globe. The term refers to that which the earliest humans understood intuitively, to that which they "knew" but were not taught, to that which inspired them to behave naturally, and to that which did not need to be taught in order for them to function and to survive. The term refers to everything that was understood before some persons began dreaming up concepts and ideas and teachings and beliefs that were used to convey false and supernatural explanations for events that were totally natural happenings.
More accurately, since the truth cannot be stated, even “The Original Understanding” is a concept that is to be used and then discarded because “understanding” means “something that one becomes aware of as a result of thorough consideration.” The ancestors of modern humans considered nothing. They did not need to—and they could not have done so if they had wanted to—because they were free of a “thinking mind.” Instead, they functioned under the auspices of a working brain. Today, conditioning and programming have created a “need” that human ancestors never had because they had “The Original Understanding” that persons today do not have because of enculturation. Today, persons can only reach the understanding (which their predecessors had automatically) by carefully considering pointers and discarding all the lies they have been told are true. The earliest humans had no “thinking mind” to use to try to differentiate between true and false, so they never suffered that constant, internal chatter that now marks the human condition. That “need” only came about after the dreaming up of concepts and dogma and ideas and ideologies by men who would control people’s thoughts and behavior. So take the term as another thorn that can be used to remove thorns, but be prepared to eventually toss out all the thorns.
That said, the term can be used to point to the understanding that humans today are lacking, namely, an innate sense of the Authentic (Natural) Self—and the Authentic (Natural) Self only—that was “understood” intuitively until languages developed and were then used by some persons to share their dreamed up concepts. Prior to that time, humans lived in a natural, authentic manner. After the introduction of concepts and dogma and ideas, the corruption of the consciousness had an impact across the planet that resulted in the condition described by an Advaitan playwright who noted that, by the 16th century, all the world had become “a stage, and all the men and women, merely players.” The Original Understanding refers to the natural behavior that happened automatically among humans when the purified consciousness inspired normal behavior. That was the type of sane behavior that existed prior to the widespread programming of persons, programming that today inspires the playing of roles rather than the ability among humans to be authentic, genuine, natural, normal and constructive rather than phony, delusional, unnatural, supernatural and destructive.
It was the understanding that allowed the earliest humans to be "authentic"—to be natural—in that they were free of all of the lies that would eventually become commonly-held as truth across a globe filled with very confused persons. It was that “understanding”—those natural, motivating drives, if you will—that allowed humans to merely exist and to do what was required to maintain the consciousness. The result of such natural motivation and functioning was that humans behaved constructively rather than behaving in self-destructive ways. That happened because there was no false self, which is what drives modern persons to want to destroy self and which inspires some persons to eventually admit, “I don’t even know who I am.” The Original Understanding really points to the pure consciousness that did not inspire any such confusion because no lies had been taught and no false identities had been assigned; therefore, no thoughts had to be raised about true identity. For evidence of what it was like when humans functioned in that sane and natural fashion, go to the woods, observe the deer, and then live in that same natural way. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
