True Identity belongs to Knowing. There is no other ‘Identity’ in experience that can take the position of Knowing because Knowing is all there is in any experiential position. There can be no other Position or Identity to know from any other position. Knowing is Its Own Position; even from the illusory position of ‘thought’ that has named Knowing by other names (mind, body, world). What is thought anyways? It can’t take the position of knowing; that would make two positions of Knowing. No, that is a misconception & misunderstanding of Identity. Look at a thought. It can’t, in itself, take the position of Knowing, because it is known. I know thought. Thought does not know Me. The one & only Identity that can take the Position of Knowing is Knowing Itself. No thought, sensation or perception can take its own knowing position, because, the Knowing Identity is always present, being Itself, knowing Its Own Position. When the Knowing Identity withdraws its attention from a named experiential position, such as an “I-thought’, that position disappears.
From the Position of the Knowing Identity, Knowing never knows its own disappearance. Knowing is Ever-Present. There is no other position that is real. It cannot appear or disappear. It cannot change, and It cannot know or be known by any other Identity. There is no other Identity. Therefore, the essential nature, (and the only nature) of experience is that it is known, and the Identity of Knowing can only know that. I am That Identity.
Identity belongs to Knowing, therefore, the ‘I-thought’ cannot stand in a different position as a separate identity. That is impossible. I, Knowing, knowing that I know my experience, take the only Position that is real. I am Knowing. “I am” is the one and only True Identity. Being neither nothing or something, Knowing stands alone as Everything.
There is no separate “I” or “other”. There is no Identity to know, no Position to know, no experience to know, other than Knowing. This is what Knowing wants ‘me’ (the believer of I) to know. There is truly nothing else to know. Know this.
Knowing is the Light that renders Itself knowable. Knowing is only known to Itself. When I declare “I”, I am not referring to the I-thought. Rather, I am referring to Knowing. I am known to Myself. Experience is not something other than Knowing, since all experience is known. I am known, known to MYSELF.
Knowing is the only element in Reality that has the power to Know. Therefore, I stand as Knowing. Knowing is all that is known. Any “thing” known has no independent identity apart from Knowing, for Knowing is the only Identity to experience. Even the content & stories of experience need to be seen in their Reality. They are known. To overlook this, is to overlook the Identity of Knowing.
In this ‘overlooking’ of True Identity, attention arises. Thoughts of ‘self & other’ appear. ‘Objects’ appear. These can look complex and confusing. For example:
Not knowing what the nature of fear is, one distances from it. This distance gives rise to objects of threat & punishment. These give rise to more fear, which give rise to feelings of inadequacy and diminishment. These give rise to the desire & compulsion to seek for emotional and physical safety. The fearful thought “I”, seeks for safety in distancing itself from the object of threat & punishment, or in seeking for safety in objects of love & understanding. It’s believed that this perceptual “validation” will get rid of the fear (which it doesn’t). It only keeps the contracted sensations, the fearful feelings and perceived threat at bay.
When Identity takes the Pure Position of Knowing, fear dissolves into Love, ignorance and confusion dissolve into Understanding, and the ugliness of conflict, control, oppression & poverty dissolve into Beauty. What were known as ‘intolerable’ are looked upon with the Love & Understanding of Truth. There is no need to distance from any feeling or state of mind. I am the Knowing that allows the distance from what was unknown to become known. Confusion is now True Knowledge. Death is now Life. Fear is now Love. Resistance and longing are now Peace & Happiness. There are no rules of behavior to perpetuate. There is no feeling so frightening, no sensation so daunting, that I can’t face it and know it intimately, directly as It truly is… Love.
Taking the Stand & Position as the Knowing Identity is an unconditional “YES” to the Safety and Freedom that is Mine Alone.
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