The Knee of Listening – The Life and Understanding of Franklin Jones

Prologue – The Heart of
Understanding

Death is utterly acceptable to
consciousness and life. There has been endless time of
numberless deaths, but neither consciousness nor life has
ceased to arise. The felt quality and cycle to death has not
modified the fragility of flowers, even the flowers within
the human body. Therefore, one’s understanding of
consciousness and life must be turned to that utter,
inclusive quality, that clarity and wisdom, that power and
untouchable gracefulness this evidence suggests. We must
cease to live in our superficial and divided way, seeking
and demanding only consciousness and life in the present
form we grasp, avoiding and resisting what appears to be the
end of consciousness and life in death.

The Heart is that understanding,
that true consciousness, that true life that is under the
extreme conditions of life and death. Therefore, it is said,
that One that is is neither born nor come to death, not
alive as the limitation of form, not rendered in what
appears, and it is the living One, than which there is no
other, appearing as all of this, but eternally the same.

There is only the constant knowledge
and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the
instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance.
Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Chapter
1

Beezone
note:
“The One Contemplated is the same, regardless of the level
or degree or kind of Realization. It is the one who
Contemplates who makes the difference”
misunderstanding
the Prologue

“The seeker is violent. At first he
approaches the man of understanding humbly, self-effacing,
with great need. But his questions find no ultimate
solution. He becomes frustrated and angry, and he leaves. He
criticizes the man of understanding. He asserts the forms of
his own seeking. He says the man of understanding is a
seeker like himself.”
Chapter
20 – Knee of
Listening

Preface

The
Knee of Listening – Table of Contents