Teaching #18: Knowing that You Know
The human mind, among its many wondrous capacities, has a remark-able ability to compartmentalize. One benefit of compartmentalization is that it enables you to cope with traumatic experiences by filing them away rather than generalizing them to the rest of your life. However, compartmental-ization also can lead you to become so good at separating yourself from your emotions that you no longer know what you feel. The Buddha understood this phenomenon of the mind and its consequences. And he realized that in order for the Four Noble Truths to be valuable, your realization of them must be perpetually awake and readily available.
Chap 6, Pg 57
For your reflection: Become interested in this phenomenon of compartmentalization. Notice when it is beneficial to you and when it is not. Is there a pattern? Take one example of when compartmentalization is not serving you and start to apply “knowing that you know.”