Absolute Innocence Means that We Must Be Defenseless
So if
you continue to perceive
reality without
knowing it,
what is that? It is mysterious. Because we believe our dead
world, our dead
mind, we are afraid of this innocence. This innocence scares the
hell out of us, scares the hell out of the
person in the mind, because when it appears, this innocence has an effect like the sun coming out from behind the cloud: immediate incineration of the dark world. More specifically, to be innocent like that, to understand or to be in that condition of
absolute innocence also means that we must be defenseless; we cannot be innocent and have defenses. We have to be absolutely without protection – even the protection of our ideas. We have to be completely vulnerable.