awakening mind - primal knowledge

"...The knower is transformed in a dynamic process; the knower and the known become unified through immediate mutual participation.
Primal knowledge belongs to the Buddhist traditions as well. Here, too, the primary challenge is moving beyond the egocentric mind. In letting go of the "object of knowledge," genuine knowledge is realized; in letting go of the ego–knower, primal knowledge is realized. Knowledge blossoms with the awakening mind that participates in the boundless interplay of things.

In Zen experience, the interplay between the knower and the known is so profound that egocentric language is totally inadequate. The connection is like that in archer, where archer, bow, arrow, the action of taking aim, and the target all merge to become a holistic process. Knowledge is more about the process of awakening mind than about "content" of thought or "object" of knowledge. This is the Zen way of knowing. "

From:
"The Awakening of Primal Knowledge"
by Dr. Ashok K. Gangadean
from Parabola, The Magazine of Myth & Tradition
Spring 1997
http://www.awakeningmind.org/pages/pkarticle.php