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“AWARENESS OF IGNORANCE”

‘The Dunning-Kruger effect (psychology)’

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by psychologists David Alan Dunning and Justin S. Kruger in 1999.

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‘Socratic paradox’

“I know that I know nothing,” also known as “Awareness of ignorance,” is a saying derived from Plato’s account of the Greek philosopher Socrates: “For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing…”

Become aware of one’s own ignorance is the path to true wisdom, pure intelligence. It is that one becomes aware that one is trapped by various preconceptions and assumptions is the awareness of ignorance.

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Cognitive biases are closely related with the mind (ego), and their influence is not limited to any particular field; they are a phenomenon that is extremely prevalent in any situation. Therefore, becoming aware of them is the most important aspect of spiritual awakening.

This cognitive bias is also the root cause of conflict, disputes, or suffering in the world.

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The more spiritually ignorant (self-unaware), the more likely one tends to proclaim how much they know or how correctly they understand and point out other people’s mistakes and wrongness. Furthermore, one is even unaware that this is based on preconceptions and assumptions.

As a result, there is constant conflict over who is right and what is wrong. And yet, one is almost always unaware of the true purpose of these reactions.

Meanwhile, the more one learns about the mind (ego) through self-observation and self-inquiry, the more one becomes aware how completely ignorant “I” = the mind (ego) is. One also realizes how trapped the mind (ego) is in preconceptions, assumptions, and unconscious projections, and that it is impossible to judge anything based on a single perspective (the folly of judging). Therefore, it leads oneself to a deeper comprehension of the futility of arguing with others about any topic.

Furthermore, one also comes to comrehend that, with each one’s level of spiritual awakening, everyone is always correct.

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The key to spiritual awakening is knowing (becoming aware of) oneself (the mind (ego)), as words of Jesus Christ, “Know thyself.”

Meditation is for this purpose, and by practicing it continuously and constantly (being in the present, while at the same time, part of one’s awareness is always being a complete observer of oneself), we can learn more about our own mind (ego).

However, without ever viewing the mind (ego) as something personal, instead, we must deepen our awareness of it as something universal.

Furthermore, with the clarity of the innermost stillness, we come to see through (become aware, clarify) each and every one of the self-righteousness, dogmatism, and biases of the mind (ego), that is, to become aware of mind’s (ego’s) ignorance, and through such self-awarness, we let the mind (ego) be sublimated (surrendered, purified, dismantled) inevitably.

In this way, when the mind (ego), which is merely a thought, an illusion, disappears, all that remains is Absolute Reality, and there is no conflict, comparison, judgment, suffering, or any duality.

At the moment when there is no self completely, pure awareness directly comes to grasp that from the very beginning, there was no beginning and no end, no time and no space, and of course, no separation at any point at all.