I know Knowing. To know anything besides Pure Knowing is to NOT KNOW MYSELF ALONE. To not know myself alone, is to be lost and suffer in ignorance of Myself. Having attached myself to a ‘thought’ of Myself, I came to believe myself to be a thought of knowing, (a person) separate from other ‘thoughts of knowing’ (people). But, regardless of the pain and suffering I may have experienced (as a person), I knew the experience of something known. What was that known in reality? I didn’t know Myself in Reality to know what that known ‘IS’ in reality. I misunderstood it to be ‘offensive & punishable’, so I cut myself off from that specific thought-feeling experience. I repressed it, suppressed it, hid it, pretended it didn’t exist. I condemned it. In doing this, I separated Myself from Myself because of ignorance of Myself. I, Knowing, had attached Myself to a thought, then clung to, yearned for and rejected many certain thoughts about feelings, feelings about perceptions, perceptions about perceptions, thoughts about perceptions & thoughts about sensations & perceptions. In misidentifying Myself as something other than Myself, I experienced the painful consequences. Ignorance of Knowing Myself as Pure Knowing breeds suffering.
Because I have attached Pure Knowing with ‘believed-in’ objects of experience, I became identified with that experience as having an independent existence apart from Pure Knowing. But Knowing goes with Me where ever I go, and I have been created to know Myself alone. Hence, I am still the Pure Knowing that knows Itself, only I had forgotten. The Knowing created Me Knowing and I know that Knowing right now. I know that I know myself. I need no form or name to know that I know. I am formless and nameless. I need no attachments to know Knowing. I know MySelf Alone. It is the one and only experience that I know. There is no other. I only seem to miss Its Shining Mark when I leave It, identify with a thought of Myself, falling into a belief that Experience is made of something other than Myself.
There IS no objective experience. There’s only ever the knowing of My own Direct Knowing. I am and know knowing whether or not object identification has occurred. All experience is Knowing and known by Me. I am only ever experiencing Knowing. I am My Own Selfless, Objectless Knowing.
The Knowing reflects back to Itself the Knowing who I know MySelf to be, because I know that which Knows. I know Myself. I am known; but I am not known by another known. I am only Known by Myself. I am known by Myself as Myself. I am MySelf and know MySelf Alone.
I know the knowing of ‘thinking’, but I am not an object of thinking.(I am not, Myself, a thought)
A thought is not really a ‘thought’. It’s only ‘called’ a thought by the Knowing who has attached and identified Itself with thinking and has consequently labelled itself with many different names.
‘A known person’ believes it is one of many separate knowers knowing many separate thoughts, names, forms & things. But, Knowing is never a separate Knower who thinks apart from other thinking knowers and knowns. From Knowing’s point of view, the known-believer-feeler-perceiver is Itself a known that is known by Knowing, and most importantly, AS KNOWING.
Knowns cannot know anything because they are knowns; and knowns DO NOT KNOW.
True Identification is when I, Knowing, stand as Pure Knowing and understand and feel that what was ‘believed’ to be many separate knowers and knowns, is truly MySelf Knowing MySelf. Knowing is all there is. Knowing is the Knower & the Known. I am known to Myself alone. I am the only Knowing there is, so I am the only Known there is. Again, the known can never know ‘another’ known because THERE IS NO OTHER KNOWN BUT KNOWING KNOWING ITSELF.
Thoughts can’t know feelings. Thoughts can’t know thoughts. Feelings can’t know perceptions. Thoughts can’t know sensations. Perceptions can’t know feelings. Thoughts cannot know perceptions. I, misidentified as a thought, have labelled my entire illusory reality. There truly are no labels at all. There is simply ‘Knowing-experiencing-Itself’ and not calling it anything. There is no other Knowing but Me, the All-Encompassing Indivisible Knowing.
I know the knowing of thinking, feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling, but I am not myself any of these. I cast away entirely the names and labels of experience (thinking-feeling-sensing-seeing-hearing-tasting-touching-smelling) and simply experience the revelation of Reality’s Knowing Nature.
I am the knowing that knows Myself, and this is known as Myself. Every experience is One Known Experience because there is one Known Knowing Whose ever-present desire is to Know Itself; whether at rest or at play. Knowing is Its own Pure Knowing Experience. I am the Knowing that Knows only the experience of Knowing MySelf.