Self understanding is: the right to know who you are. But, did you know that self knowledge, and knowing yourself are two separate things?
What is active self understanding? In terms of self knowledge, it's incoming self analyzation. This means that you're not observing yourself, you're understanding self observation. This could mean you're focused on one aspect of yourself, or it could also mean you're focused on multiple. the idea is that you're observing who you relate to, as that self aspect.
What is passive self understanding? In terms of knowledge of yourself, it's outgoing self analysis. This means that you're observing yourself, and not engaged in self observation. Which means in kind, that everything that you are focused on, is happening to a you that seems separated from the aspects of self that holds your attention or attentiveness in any given moment.
Active self observation, requires an understanding of the role required of your consciousness. Whereas passive self observation, requires that you do not engage in conscious activity. In this way, self knowledge and knowing yourself becomes the incoming or outgoing transfer of energy through your field of perception, be it mentally, physically or through any other sense.
Self understanding, goes deeper than self observation. In fact, it's one octave beyond the basic conditions for yourself, another self and other selves to be distinguishable by their frequency of purpose through living motion. In fact, all gnosis data held in living stasis fields, requires self characteristics to be dissolved completely, before you're able to sense objective truth.
We often tend to do this in part throughout moments of our daily task lists, throughout the day. However spending prolonged periods of time in this state, is what's referred to as living gnosis meditation, or sometimes, guided or focused meditation without self movement, just awareness.
This requires your thoughts to not be blank, but not be unreachable from a state of blankness either. It is temporary and must alternate between various thought perceptions as information moves through you, as if you're standing in the middle of multiple river streams of flowing moving substance. Like water, accept without a current.
Directionless movement is what this is known as, and it is the part of self passivity that is known as the static haze filter on thought perception. the polar opposite to this, is clarity of self becoming, which requires exact directions in one-dimensional space, to execute a plan in linear capacity.
Through passivity, we decompress activity. through activity, we compress passivity. This is how we perceive things, and it is also how we align things or co-align ourselves to other things different self aspects materialize, or engage through us to reach us by in turn. Harmonic understanding of how best to fit in with passive activity, or active passivity, requires aligning self aspirations, but not aspects with your goals of focus, as opposed to your focused goals. Which is precisely how you build relationships, as opposed to tearing them down by your presence alone.
Being ware of how absent you are in the places you're attempting to reach with your entire state of focus at first reaching a still point, before transcending into another frame of perception will take time. But it is possible to use active and passive states of self understanding simultaneously to be able to achieve a much higher state of concentration throughout anything you do in your life in both a spiritual, and material manner.