It’s A Matter of Identity

Name one thing that you believe is NOT KNOWN to you?

Try it now. Is there anything that you believe you don’t know?

Most people when asked this question look right away to the ‘world of objects’. What have they not yet accomplished? What have they not yet achieved? What have they not yet learned in all the subjects that are on offer? Where have they fallen short in finding love and happiness? The list is endless. But, looking to objects, activities, substances, states of mind or relationships is not the way to know what you believe you do not know. In REALITY, there is nothing that you do not know, because there is nothing that is separate from the KNOWN.

Do you believe that the value of the known is found in the multiplicity and diversity of its ‘contents’ or in the fact that the KNOWN IS KNOWN. Content can include the most heavenly to the most hellish experience. Content can include the most painful to the most pleasurable experience.  Do you want to continue picking and choosing between the polarized content of experience? Or, do you want to KNOW THE KNOWN FOR ITS OWN SAKE?

Do you want to understand that everything you already KNOW is all that ‘can’ be KNOWN? Do you want to understand that YOU are not missing out on anything right now?

Ok, here we go.

All that we can know, have known, do know, or will ever know is already KNOWN. It’s the missing content that you believe is going to arrive that you still hope for; but that is an illusion. Anything that has a beginning changes, and has an end. The test of Reality is that it cannot change or disappear, and that it can’t be known by something other than itself.

So, the question now arises; who or what is the KNOWN and who or what KNOWS IT?

Its so simple, it is overlooked.

The answer is so clear.  It’s so ordinary. It’s so subtle. It’s so pure and indivisible.

The KNOWN is KNOWN, (not through objective experience) but through the Intimate & Direct Knowing-Understanding that it is “I”; THE KNOWING THAT KNOWS ITSELF. I am the one and only INDIVISIBLE KNOWABLE REALITY. I am the Knowing that is KNOWN. There is no ‘other’ to KNOW. There is no such reality as real things, objects, bodies, worlds, etc apart from it being KNOWN. There is what thought calls, ‘thinking-feeling-sensing-perceiving’, but even these do not have their own separate independent reality apart from the fact that they are KNOWN.  There is only the KNOWING of Myself & that is called KNOWN Experience. It is One. I am THE KNOWING OF MYSELF. I do not change. I do not disappear. I am not known by something other than Myself. KNOWING Myself is the one indivisible, object-less KNOWN reality.

It is I, the Pure KNOWING, that knows Myself and am known by Myself. There is no other known knowable other than Me, Knowing. It’s all that is KNOWN.

Now, the fact that THE KNOWING is the only KNOWN Reality there is, do you still feel attached to knowing a happy state of mind? Are you attached to the content of some loving, exotic blissful state? Are you attached to avoiding the content of some depressing, lonely state? Are you attached to chasing after the content that you like versus the content that you don’t like? Look at this attachment to desire.  It is also KNOWN.  EVERYTHING IS KNOWN. Know the Knowing and attachment to desire will naturally dissolve.

Desiring or resisting any state is NOT the way to know THE HAPPINESS you are looking for. HAPPINESS IS IN KNOWING YOUR TRUE IDENTITY.  THIS IS ALL THAT IS KNOWN. IT IS ONE.

In this Light, NOTHING IS UNKNOWN, regardless of the belief that there are real things that are yet to know ‘about’. That very belief is KNOWN. Look deeply into the content of a desired experience, such as “becoming Enlightened” …the content of that desired idea is a clusters of thoughts, beliefs, opinions, feelings, sensations, a bunch of images and perceptions. These experiences come and go constantly. To go about looking for pleasurable, blissful, exotic experiences is to perpetuate your own suffering. It’s a matter of Identity.  But, every experience, the blissful and the insufferable, are KNOWN, and this KNOWN is not a cluster of ‘things’, but rather an indivisible intimate experience made of  KNOWING Itself. This is the way of Wisdom, Love and Beauty.

You KNOW the essential KNOWING. Without It, You would not know Yourself. Knowing created You Knowing.

Are are still attached to waiting for some non-essential ‘unknown’ content to happen to you.  This is simply a mis-identification of Identity. Know this.

Let’s not be confused about the KNOWN anymore hoping for some ‘state’ to become ‘known’. States are KNOWN. Only Knowing is Present and Knowing of Itself.

How’s that for an ‘enlightened’ perspective?

Where are the questions now?  What is there left to know?