[Gem]

Secondly, let me say something about this notion of knowledge. That knowledge is stored and constrained and then taught as something acquired. It isn't something that really exists right now. It isn't part of this living universe. It is discourse. It's everything to do with a belief system and it is nothing to do with what is true. It is something one can put in their memory box and take home. It belongs in the past and has no bearing on this moment. This knowledge is what the 'spiritual master' has over the minions that pander around them. It positions the monk or the teacher as the authority, and makes you a paltry figure, obedient and reliant within their shadows.

All this hierarchy rests on the institutional knowledge, which isn't 'the known'; isn't the Gnosis; not the insight. The known is immediate, momentary, and then gone. That truth can never be captured and then taught or learned.