Watch, and you will that all your answers come from your memory. Then try to find out a way where memory does not function and pure conciseness functions. That is what understanding is.
I have heard:
A doctor stepped into the patient's room. Five minutes later he came out and asked for a corkscrew, then he went back to his patient. In another five minutes he was out again and demanded a chisel and a hammer.
The distraught husband cpouldn't stand it any longer. he pleaded, "For heaven's sake, doctor, what is wrong with my wife?"
"I don't know yet." the doctor repleied. "I can't get my bag opened."
Even sometimes when you say, "I don't know," it may not necessarily be coming out of understanding. it may be simply that you can't open your bag. It may be you cannot open your memories, or you are not able to find something in your memory -- you need time. You say, "I don't know - you say. "Give me time, let me think about it." What will you do by thinking? If you know, you know; if you don't know, you don't know. What are you going to think about? But you say, "Give me time, i will think about it."
What are you saying? you are saying, "Give me a little time; I will have to go in the basement of my mind and search. And there is such a rubbish accumulated through the years that it is difficult to find, but i will try."
Meditate and become free from this basement. I is not that the basement is not useful, it can be used, but it should not become a substitute for your understanding. A man of understanding looks into things directly. His insight is direct, but he can use all his accumulation to help the insight to reach you. He can use all his accumulation to make everything he is trying to convey to you is clear, but that which he is trying to convey is his own. Words may be borrowed, language may be borrowed -- has to be borrowed -- concepts may be borrowed but not what he is trying to convey to you. The container will come from the memory but the contents will come from his insight.
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