In this exploration the deeper layers, such as feelings of fear, guilt, shame, inadequacy, unlovableness, etc. are allowed to surface without resistance or agenda and slowly reveal the sense of separation that lies at their heart.
In fact, we don’t know objects; we just know ‘knowing’. And who is it that knows ‘knowing’? ‘Knowing’ is not known by something or someone outside or other than itself. ‘Knowing’ is known by ‘knowing’. In other words, all that is experienced in the experience of an object, other or world is ‘knowing’.
The belief that we were born, that we change, evolve, grow old and die is simply a belief to which the vast majority of humanity subscribes without realizing that they are doing so. It is the religion of our culture.
In other words, in reality, there are not two things – one, the screen and two, the document or image. There is just the screen.
The apparent separation of experience into two essential parts is similar to imagining that a screen is divided in two when two images appear on it side by side. If thinking imagines that the screen is only contained in only one of the images, then thinking will also have to imagine a substance that is ‘not the screen’, out of which the second image is made.
I’ve been operating according to the idea that it is almost impossible to let go of mental patterns that operate unconsciously and that I have to know such a pattern of thinking first in order to let go of it and abide in my true nature. Leave all those mental habits and patterns alone. The self that is apparently operating, that seems to know these patterns and that would ‘let go of them’ is itself simply one such pattern.
It is the self-aware screen of awareness, upon which the drama of experience is playing and out of which it is made, that becomes so intimately involved with the objective content of its experience that it seems to lose itself in it and, as a result, overlooks or forgets its own presence, just as a dreamer’s mind loses itself in its own dream at night.
This absence of otherness, objectness, selfness is love itself. It is what we are and all we know.
Security and happiness cannot be found in anything that comes and goes. Find whatever it is in your experience that doesn’t appear, move, change or disappear, and invest your identity, security and happiness in that alone.
There is only experiencing from moment to moment, and this experiencing is one ever-present, seamless whole.
Awareness has no experience of its own appearance, beginning, birth, duration, disappearance or death.
An object is only an object from the point of view of the mind.
Nothing new needs to be added to experience for us to become aware that our self is always being.
Knowing or experiencing is not what it does; it is what it is.
Every word on this page is in fact only made of paper. It only expresses the nature of the paper, although it may describe the moon.
The abstract concepts of the mind cannot apprehend Reality, although they are an expression of it.
For anything to be known, its apparent ‘thingness’ must dissolve in Awareness and become pure knowing.
The true non-dual understanding is like an explosion – it cannot be contained in any form.
But the utter intimacy of the knower and the known is a well-known and familiar experience.
If we look closely at the actual experience of the body rather than the idea we may have of it, we find that our only experience of it is the current sensation or perception. All sensations and perceptions appear and disappear, but our self, aware Presence, remains throughout. This ever-present ‘I’ cannot therefore be made out of an intermittent object such as a sensation or perception.