What you don't understand is what you are.

- Let's try to mess and crack up your mind: What you understand is what you are not. What you don't understand is what you are. Explanation... Don't try to figure out who or what you are. What understands what you are is what you are not. What doesn't understand what you are is what you are. What you are has nothing to do with knowledge or understanding. What you are does not know what it means to "know or understand". What you are has no meaning. So it makes no sense to understand the meaning. If you don't understand the meaning of this speech, that's fine. The goal of these koans is precisely to NOT make you understand who you are. Be glad you don't understand! This state of no-knowledge, no-thought, no-cognition is enlightenment! This is the purpose: not to make you understand anything. Stay in that misunderstanding. Extend this mental pause indefinitely and you will get what you are. That incomprehensible cognitive suspension is what you are. Did you understand? No? Perfect. Are you confused, perplexed, disoriented? Yes? Great. Stay there. Not sure what to think? Fantastic. Don't try to understand yourself. Nobody can understand what you are. You are too far beyond to be understood in words, concepts, meanings. Be happy not to believe in the illusion of self-knowledge. Be happy that you cannot be known by your self or recognized by others. Do you feel this suspension of meaning? Do you feel this paralysis of the cognitive gear? Go in search of this non-mental state. Leave the mental engine on standby. Don't go into mental gear to figure out who you are. Save your mental fuel for something less demanding, like playing online or working offline. If so, your knowledge may be of use to you. Otherwise it is useless. You cannot understand what you are. If you think you understand yourself, you can be sure that you have been fooled again. And even if you think you understand, you don't really understand. You don't have to understand. Or if you prefer, you have to understand that there is nothing to understand. The secret lies in not trying to understand anything. I hope I have confused you enough. Now remain disoriented in timelessness. You can't get out of there. You're stuck there. Your little self is screwed ... forever. Checkmate, again and again. No knowledge can ever help you out of the unknowable. (Zero)