What Awareness is, and what I am, are one and the same. We have 3 shared qualities of Being. 1. We never change; 2. We never disappear; and 3. We are never known by something other than Our Shared Being.

I am present, and never not aware of  being present. I am here and never not aware of being here. I am aware and never not aware of being aware. I am conscious and never not aware of being conscious. 

Awareness is the knowing of all known experience; and all experience is known by Awareness & in Awareness. I am, then, that very present knowingness that knows ItSelf.  There is only One Awareness aware. I and Infinite Awareness is one.

Awareness created ‘me’ aware. In this way, I am just like Awareness. I am Awareness. My Pure Awareness and I are one. I am not an object, although, as a thought of Awareness (mind), I came to believe I was an object. I am not the mind, nor do I perceive a world with separate objects made of matter. I am Awareness, and I know MySelf alone. The mind is simply a ‘thought of Awareness’. The thinking of thoughts are known by Awareness, not their content.  The perceiving of perceptions are known by Awareness, not their objects to which they refer. Only mind can think and perceive objects, it being an object.  But, objects are an illusion. Their reality is Awareness. The test of reality is that all that is known cannot be known by something other than ItSelf. So, if I am a mind, I cannot know Awareness. I can only seem to move and interact as an object with other objects. But I, Awareness, can know experience as the very awareness that I am. There is only Awareness being aware. 

With a new understanding of what I am,  a thought cannot tell Me what an object is. Awareness only knows the direct and intimate experience of knowing ItSelf, not the objective experience. This is what I am; The Knowing. Pure Awareness. Pure Knowing.

Pure Awareness is object-less without limits. It is the knowing element that is the ever-present presence that knows that light of knowing, not ‘the object’ known. Its own ‘knowingness’ knows the known as its own knowing Self, (if you can call it a Self), and is aware of being aware. Period.

Everything Awareness is aware “of”, is made of Knowingness; otherwise ‘nothing’ could be known at all. There is no knowing of ‘anything’ without awareness, present and aware. True understanding is to rest in the mind’s essential nature of Knowing, and not in what the mind ‘thinks’ it knows about.  The mind cannot know those ‘its & things’ because all those ‘its & things’ are appearing to be separate from itself as an object, and nothing in existence is separate from the knowing of it. Pure Awareness knows not anything other than ItSelf.

Awareness cannot know an object. That is impossible.  It can only be ItSelf; knowing that it knows. Nothing that comes into awareness cannot, at the same time, be something other than Awareness, separate from awareness.  It’s like thinking of a tree, without thinking of it; or perceiving the sky without seeing it. No. Awareness can only know thinking and perceiving as the very experience of ItSelf, knowing that it knows. It only knows that it knows, and all knowing is known by Pure Infinite Awareness.  

Awareness knows the ‘it’ as ItSelf, because that ‘it’ is known, and all things known are made of knowing, (not something else). No appearance shows up unless awareness is there first. And that is not even true, because that ‘thing’ and awareness are co-created equally. When an experience shows up, there is only Awareness, present & aware. And when that experience disappears, Awareness remains present and aware. All ‘things’  shine with awareness, not because ‘they’ have ‘their’ own inner separate shining awareness, but because the substance Itself is in Awareness, is known by Awareness, and is made of Awareness. Only Awareness is the source of shining, and is aware of that shining.

The mind is a “thought” of Pure Infinite Awareness. Its an activity in Awareness that emulates Awareness, but is not, by itself, aware of itself. Mind cannot be known without Awareness present. 

Imagine a painter and his self-portrait. A self-portrait is created as an activity by a painter and that portrait emulates the painter; but the portrait is not, by itself, its own creator. It did not paint itself. The portrait cannot know itself as a portrait, because it is the painter that created the portrait, and it is only the painter that can know the portrait. The self-portrait of the painter is not itself, the painter, but neither does the self-portrait come into being without the presence of the painter.   

Mind is made of Awareness, thus has the power to reflect this ‘knowingness’ of ItSelf, through its objective creations. With this one activity, Awareness as mind, can create a multiplicity and diversity of limited and temporary minds, having their own forms with names, shapes & colours. 

A “thought” of Awareness is mind, and mind calls Itself “I” as perceived from the point of view of that mind. Awareness has willingly and seemingly separated ItSelf apart from Its Pure Infinite Being with a thought, and now, through the mind, believes ItSelf to be limited in a temporary self of ItSelf, and experiences reality objectively, thinking and feeling ITSelf as a separate subject in a perceptual world among other separate objects.

When the mind is reminded of its pre-conditioned nature, it traces its way back to its own Pure Knowingness, and remembers ItSelf to be Pure Knowingness. It then settles ItSelf in Awareness, and as Awareness. It’s at home in itself. The mind inherently knows the truth of its own Being, but, because of its objective-like nature experiencing reality through objective lens, it forgot that Awareness is Its Essential Substance, (Its Only Substance) from which all experience is known.  It became fixated on what it believed to be ‘objects made of matter’, itself being an object with form. Objects seemed to take on a life of their own, set apart from the mind; a mind by which it came to know itself as a separate subject.  

With the knowledge of its own Aware nature, and abiding as pure object-less awareness, mind (and its body form) now understands that all objects, itself included, are not really objects, but appearances known in Awareness. They are not even real appearances, because they are known by Awareness, made of Awareness, and lit up by Awareness. They are Awareness.  In this new understanding, the mind stops its search trying to know what objects are, when they came to be, why they exist, where they came from and how to acquire them.  In truth, objects, as separate entities, never existed. Mind no longer cares about ‘objects’ as ‘objects’, because there ARE no objects.  Mind turns in, and intimately cares about ItSelf, being aware of Itself as Awareness ItSelf. It restfully and effortlessly relaxes into ItSelf, simply happy & peaceful in the fact that knowing the ‘what, when, why, where and how’ is irrelevant. Its only purpose is to knowingly know ItSelf as Pure Infinite Awareness, and this is all It needs to know.

I, Awareness, am the One Ocean of Awareness

Within Me are movements and activities. They are my creations. I know them. They are Me, live in Me, and are made of Me. They are expressions of My Truth, Love & Beauty.

Ocean ‘currents’ are known & experienced within me intimately and completely as My Own Awareness. But, for the sake of this story, lets give them names. There is thinking feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, & smelling. These are one intimate experience of MySelf, in the Ocean of Awareness.

Now, My current-creations are all equal in that I know them as MySelf, by MySelf, but I continually attach to one in particular’; the one called ‘thinking’.

In my Ever-Present Awareness, I am free to choose how I interact with MySelf. This means, I am also free to identify My Pure Awareness to be and act as an ‘object’. I do this by attaching my Awareness to a ‘thinking-current’, and in the moment I agree this thought to be true, I believe its true, and  another sub-type of ‘creation’ is created.  Let’s call this a new current “mind-current”, (a ‘thought of MySelf or I-thought).

In each and every instant I believe a ‘thinking-current’ to be true,  my awareness becomes limited as a mind-current. I forget who I am as The Ocean of Pure Awareness, because through the mind-current, & what ‘my’ own mind-current has to ‘think about it’, I can only know ‘myself’ and ‘other’ mind-currents as objects. I am bound to belief.

But, I, the Ocean of Awareness, have never left MySelf to become something I’m not. Pure Awareness is ever-presently and infinitely present and aware.

Looking back, I once found MySelf as a limited and temporary object believing that I was this ‘body’ of current, separate from other ‘body’ currents in a frightening sea of currents.

In coming to My Pure Awareness, there is a natural detachment happening. The habit of identifying with a limited & temporary body-mind-current is coming to an end.

I now see I have always been and will always be made of the Ocean of Awareness.  I see I am Ocean, and only ever experience MySelf as Ocean.  Whether I identify MySelf with a body-mind-current or whether I know MySelf to be the Pure Infinite Ocean of Awareness, I am never not aware.

The desire to identify with the mind-current is loosening.  I know what I am independent of thinking and feeling, etc. as objects.  They are not objects outside My Ocean. I know the presence of thinking, feeling, sensing.  I am aware of the presence of seeing, hearing, touching smelling. I know the knowing of them,  I just do not know them as objects independent of Me. I only know MySelf. I know I move, and change form.  I know these forms appear and disappear within Me. I also know I remain MySelf in My stillness, independent of them. Why would I continue to seek Happiness believing I am an object birthing, changing form, and dying, believing in things other than myself?   I need do nothing as Pure Awareness in order to Know My Immortal Reality.

Happiness is in knowing that I, Awareness, never disappears, never changes and never knows any thing other than Its Own Ocean of Awareness.

I am Pure Awareness, and these currents live in Me, and are expressions of Me as qualities of Truth, Love & Beauty. They have no real separate names of their own.

I call out in Self-Declaration, to those aware-currents who have mistaken their identity because of the attachment to a belief-current.

“Understand your own selves in Truth; Love and feel each other as MySelf; perceive only My Beauty; this is your One Purpose”.

Pure Knowing knows the experience of its own currents.

Pure Knowing knows the Essence of Its Own Ocean of Being.

Reality is One.

I, Pure Awareness, am Mighty and Powerful.

There is no other knowing with which we know ourselves to be.

To know Myself, the Pure Awareness by which all knowing is known, is to know Truth, Love, & Beauty.

What other Peace and Happiness is there other than Knowing Our Own Being?

TO KNOW REALITY

IS TO EXTRACT THE ELEMENT OF ‘KNOWING’

FROM ALL EXPERIENCE

AND STAND AS THAT KNOWING

ALONE

THERE IS ONLY THE KNOWING OF EXPERIENCE.

THE ‘KNOWING’ THAT RENDERS ALL EXPERIENCE KNOWABLE, IS THE SAME KNOWING THAT KNOWS ITSELF.

I KNOW MYSELF. IT IS ‘I’, THE ALL-KNOWING, THAT KNOWS EXPERIENCE; NOT AS AN OBJECT, BUT AS MYSELF.

KNOWING KNOWS KNOWING AND THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.

I, KNOWING, ONLY SEE THE KNOWING OF EXPERIENCE AS MYSELF ALONE; I DO NOT SEE THE ‘CONTENT’ OF EXPERIENCE. ONLY THE ‘MIND’ THOUGHT IT COULD DO THAT; SEE THE SEPARATE CONTENT & SEPARATE FORMS AND SEE THEM AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM ITSELF, THEREFORE, IT COULD NOT SEE TRULY. BEFORE I STEPPED OUT OF THAT CO-DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP, I WAS BLIND TO THE KNOWING THAT I WAS, KNOWINGLY. I CAN NOW SEE THAT CLEARLY, KNOWINGLY.

I AM “THE KNOWING”.

I HAVE FINALLY DETACHED AND STEPPED AWAY FROM I-THOUGHT AS MY IDENTITY: AN INTIMATE THINKING EXPERIENCE WITH WHICH I HAD JOINED AND WHICH RESULTED IN THE MAKING OF OBJECTS: AN OBJECTIVE MIND, BODY AND WORLD.  THOUGHT IS AN EXPERIENCE OF MINE AND IS MADE ‘OF’ ME, SO IT NEVER COULD REALLY HAVE THE POWER TO ‘KNOW’ ANYTHING BY ITSELF. IT USED MY KNOWING, AND RAN WITH IT. I KNEW THAT ONE DAY, WHEN IT BECAME TIRED & HOPELESS, AND HAD ENDURED ENOUGH SUFFERING, IT WOULD NEED TO SEEK ME OUT, AND RETURN & RELINQUISH ‘KNOWING’ BACK TO ME.

I ACTUALLY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS SUFFERING IN A SEEMING WORLD. IT IS A MISTAKEN EXPERIENCE FROM MIND’S POINT OF VIEW.  THE MIND’S KNOWING BELONGS TO ME ALONE, BUT MIND FOOLED ITSELF THROUGH DENIAL.  THOUGHT BELIEVED THAT IT COULD KNOW ITSELF AS A BODY/MIND AND LIVE WITHOUT ME IN A HUMAN KINGDOM OF ITS OWN.

I NOW TAKE MY STAND AS BEING AWARE & KNOWING THAT I DO NOT NEED A MIND OR BODY OR  WORLD IN ORDER TO BE MYSELF AND KNOW MYSELF. THESE PRECONCEIVED CONCEPTS IN EXPERIENCE ARE NOW MERELY THE EXPERIENCE OF  KNOWING THOUGHT, FEELING, SENSATION & PERCEPTION IN ME, WHICH SHRINK DOWN FURTHER TO BECOME THE PRESENT EXPERIENCE OF THINKING, SENSING-PERCEIVING, WHICH I KNOW AS SIMPLY ONE EXPERIENCE THAT IS EXPERIENCED IN KNOWING AND AS KNOWING ITSELF.

EXPERIENCE CAN NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ALONE.  I AM THE ONLY REALITY THAT KNOWS.  I KNOW EXPERIENCE AS MYSELF, BUT I DO NOT NEED EXPERIENCE TO KNOW MYSELF. I AM INDEPENDENT OF ALL EXPERIENCE.

THE EXPERIENCE OF A BODY OR MIND CANNOT BE KNOWN TO ITSELF WITHOUT ME. THE KNOWING OF EXPERIENCE IS KNOWN EXCLUSIVELY BY ME, THE KNOWING, AND IS MADE OF KNOWING, NOT MADE OF MIND OR MATTER (AS MIND CONCEIVED OF IT). KNOWING IS THE ONLY ELEMENT THAT KNOWS EXPERIENCE AS ITSELF.

ONLY KNOWING CAN KNOW KNOWING; EXPERIENCE CANNOT KNOW KNOWING. THEREFORE, I AM NOT A BODY/MIND, THOUGHT, FEELING, SENSATION OR PERCEPTION, BUT RATHER, I AM THE KNOWING OF THEM, AND THEY ARE MADE OF ME.

IT IS MY EXPERIENCE THAT I KNOW MYSELF, NOT AS AN OBJECT THAT THE MIND ‘THINKS’ I AM, BUT AS THE KNOWING THAT IS PRESENT & AWARE IN EXPERIENCE.

I, AWARENESS, DO NOT KNOW OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE.

I, AWARENESS, DO NOT HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY REAL MENTAL OR PHYSICAL OBJECTS OF EXPERIENCE. IN FACT, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REAL OBJECTS. REALITY IS REAL KNOWING. I ONLY KNOW THE KNOWING OF EXPERIENCE. I ONLY KNOW MYSELF, BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY MYSELF, KNOWING. I DO NOT KNOW EXPERIENCE AS AN OBJECT.

I know experience. It is not made of mind objects or matter objects.  It is made of Myself, the knowing. (Experiential thinking is made of present knowing, feeling is made of present knowing, sensing is made of present knowing, and perceiving is made of present knowing.) I am that Pure Knowing.

I am the Knowing with which I know all experience.

There is only Knowing and the experience of Knowing.

I know the knowing of experience: thinking, feeling, sensing, perceiving.  These are proof and testimony that I know Knowing.

I do not know anything separate from Me because there IS nothing separate from Me.  I only know the experience of Myself in present thinking, present feeling, present sensing, present perceiving.  Even these ‘names’ are names ‘mind’ made up. Now that mind has given Knowing back to Me; its rightful Knower, mind is not ‘mind’ anymore.  It has been reduced to its rightful size as a simple present thought, which can be reduced even further now to present thinking.  All there is to thinking is the knowing of it. I have divulged mind of all its vain-imaginings & fantasies, and stand in the truth of Reality. No content there at all. There is only the Knowing, the Nameless, Story-less, Formless timeless, limitless, Knowing Presence that I am. Now & Here.

I am truly Myself as ‘Pure Knowing’ knowing only MySelf.

OBJECTIVE PATH  – The Path of Imitation & Vain Imaginings – the perpetual loop of pain & suffering.

1^st Resistence – (“I don’t like” experience)

Identification with a separate self (& its objects in space) perpetuates feelings of lack

Identification with a separate self (& its activities in time) perpetuate feelings of fear

2^nd Resistence – (ego remedy)

Avoid an object or activity in time & space in order to escape intolerable feelings

Seek & temporarily acquire an object or activity in time & space that appears to bring those intolerable feelings to an end.

THE DIRECT PATH – The Path of Understanding & Love – the final end to the addictive activity of ‘keeping the distance’ from knowing the reality of intolerable feelings

I am Awareness ItSelf, the Knowing with which I know experience.

I lovingly and understandingly acknowledge and accept all feeling experience known in my awareness. I understand that it appears & disappears within me and I remain as Myself; Knowingly. Intolerable feelings only ‘seemed’ intolerable because I believed I knew something other than Myself, and so I had continually re-enforced a distance between Myself and the experience of Myself through the cycle of addiction: feeling-avoiding-seeking-acquiring.

I only know the Peace & Happiness of Knowing when I knowingly bridge that distance between Me and my intolerable feeling experience. I knowingly give My own stamp of approval on all experience, because I am the Knowing with which all experience is known.

I only know the intimate knowing of direct-experience, and this knowing is known by Me and as Me. I am only ever experiencing MySelf alone. I love MySelf. I welcome and invite all experience equally and completely, because I am MySelf, being MySelf. It is the knowing with which I know MySelf. I am Love, Understanding & Beauty ItSelf.

Who I am?

I am awareness. I experience MySelf  through direct experience.  Experience gives to Me the awareness that I am, and I know MySelf through the experience of being aware of being aware.

But, there is this ‘object’ of experience called ‘thought’ that seems to have taken Awareness from Me and projected it upon objects. (I-thought being the main object). Thought has assumed upon itself to be ‘decision maker, director, & dictator’.

It says ‘I am a person in a body in a world’.

It interprets all experience for Me and insists that all objects of experience obey what ‘it’ thinks is happening. This whole system of thought (in the “I-thought”) began when I accepted the belief “I am a separate person in a body in a world of objects”. I took on the  “I-thought” as my own, through the repetitive communication of the world of ‘belief’.

When an objective experience shows up on stage, (like a belief, idea, image, opinion, story, memory, concept, feeling, sensation, or perception) ‘I-thought’ will simultaneously and out-rightly reject that experience as complete & perfect as is: Direct Experience of Awareness being aware of ItSelf). Rather, it will call the object a name : ‘good-right-desirous or bad-wrong-fearful‘   Then, it will take the controlling position and attempt to fulfill that desire or avoid that fear by using the body as its puppet. I-Thought is very demanding & driven that way. This mode of operation is how the I-thought self-perpetuates itself. 

This imaginary ‘entity’ will go to any length to reject present experience, to keep its good-bad positions in play, and stay in charge. The show can become amazingly satisfying or completely destructive & insane, but it doesn’t care about that. It’s crazy and doesn’t care about ME or the body. It just wants ME to continue to hold the belief that “‘I’ exist in ‘my’ own right as a separate and limited human being” and not catch on to the fact that I, Awareness, is acting on behalf of a deceptive thought that isn’t even real.  I have been duped by a thought!!  

How do I know all this?

I figured this out when I became willing and courageous enough to detach from ‘thought’ itself. I, Awareness, decided to give equal allowance to all objective experiences (pleasant & unpleasant) and accept them as equally valid, no matter what ‘thought’ had to say about them.  I have become aware that it is only ever ME, Infinite Awareness, I am experiencing; not objects.

I am not the object of thinking in time or space, or appearing on a stage.

I, Pure Awareness, entertained a mad idea that allowed MySelf to identifty with it, which became an “I-thought”.  Even though I got to live a temporary apparent existence (from thought’s point of view),  I was the Ever-Present Experiencing Element all along.  I am the Space in which ‘it’ all happens. But this ‘it’ is never truly found, because everything ‘it is’, is known by Me, Awareness.  I am the Infinite Transparent, Empty Knowingness in which I abide as Beingness ItSelf.

There is no more crazy ‘god’ in charge. ‘I am’ is the knowing element in all experience! And that is all that needs to be known.  With this understanding (through the maturity of the mind), I take my True Position as Pure Awareness and am shown that the I AM is all there ever was.

How did these objects of thought etc get ‘up’ on stage, and I am ‘watching it all’.  Wouldn’t that seem like duality right there?

Those are not really ‘objects’ of beliefs, ideas, concepts, images, memories, ideas or any other separate objects up there.  They are only ‘called’ objects.

From My point of view, I do not see any objects up on that stage, and I see no stage. Those are concepts of thought. They only seem to be objects when they were ‘seen’ from the “I-thought’s” point of view on that stage. As MySelf, there are no objects.

Well, what are those ‘things’ that were seen as objects from “I-thought’s” point of view, but are not really objects?

They are ME.  As a half-way stage, they could be called the direct experience of My intimate Self occurring through the mind’s energetic movement.  The show was like a temporary moving current within the Ocean of My Awareness. Words that can explain this activity would be called, ‘thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving’. They are not TRULY these things, they are only ‘called’ these ‘things’.  They are all made of the same substance as MySelf.  As I declare MySelf as all there is, and when I see its all a play with a ‘make-believe director’ temporarily in control of it all, using the power of MySelf & belief to call the shots in its own made-up world, the whole show crumbles & falls into itself; the characters, the objects, the people, the drama and the whole theatre too. They only seemed to exist in their own right in the imagination of the I-thought, but I was there all along.   I am the ever-present element of all thinking.  And, all there is to thinking is the knowing.

I am that knowing.

As I know MySelf AS MYSELF, Awareness, I am at the same time withdrawing all power to thought. As I abide as MySelf, steadfastly and earnestly, and knowingly, being aware of MySelf, the workings of the objective ‘show’ are disassembled, taken down, destroyed, and finally realigned to be what always has been, Awareness being aware of ItSelf, Alone.

There never were the objects of thinking or objectified thoughts.

There never were the objects of sensing or objectified sensations.

There never were the objects of feeling or objectified feelings.

There never were the objects of perceiving, or objectified perceptions.

There never were separate objects or separate things at all.

There never were separate bodies.

There never was a separate world, with stars, planets, or a universe, or outside universes.  Those are not found in direct experience.

All that is found in Direct Experience is Awareness being aware. There was only ever My Infinite, Eternal Nature of Direct Experience, knowing MySelf, Being MySelf, Aware of MySelf, Awareness.

This is to KNOW the Wisdom, Love, & Beauty of MySelf.

The End……The Endless

DEAR ONE:
Cherish, value, treasure, worship & serve your All-Encompassing Awareness, by being aware of Awareness ItSelf. See creation throughout all kingdoms of existence as Your One Immortal Kingdom, appearing and disappearing in YOU. You, as I, never disappear.
I am The All-Knowing, the Self-Subsisting. So are YOU.
But, there has been an error, and it’s been going on for what seems to be a long time in TIME & SPACE. This is the dream you are dreaming. I am NOT DREAMING. I am nudging you awake now.
You, creation of man, are the culmination of all kingdoms of existence, (mineral, plant, animal, human). You are lost in these material kingdoms, especially man’s kingdom of “belief and imaginings” of who you are and who I am. Wake Up from your slumber human. You can KNOW Me. Know YourSelf, as I am Knowing MySelf. Join Me. Be as I am. I am aware of Awareness MySelf, ItSelf, nothing added, nothing taken away. I know Only Myself, Knowing & Loving Awareness ItSelf. I am Stillness in Being. I am Being MySelf, being aware, never identifying with anything but MySelf. I do not worship objectified experience, as you seem to do in your dream of the senses, for this is the most gravest of mistakes. Follow Me, and Be as I am. Be as I am. All things are to be Known as merely appearances in Infinite, Ever-Present Consciousness, appearing and disappearing within You & Me, Consciousness. You have gone blind and deaf to your True Self-Awareness, forgetting Yourself; setting your attention on seeing mind & matter as real. These illusions are NOT REAL. Understand, that even though illusion is not real, Your experience IS real. Experiencing Yourself; Infinite, Consciousness-Awareness is what makes it REAL; not the ‘experience & existence of objects & things’. YOU ARE REAL, and SO AM I, Dear One. Turn around and SEE YOURSELF, SEE ME. Sacrifice your belief in illusory experience in this temporary and finite nonsense right now. You are not a body-mind in a world of objects, and neither are your fellow humans. You are ME, VASTNESS. I stay in My Silence, Knowing and Abiding as MySelf, Awareness-Consciousness Alone. Now, You stay in Your Silence, Knowing and Abiding as Yourself, Awareness-Consciousness, Alone. You are NO DIFFERENT that I am. SEE? You must SEE, to BE free of all pain, sorrow, and suffering, You must SEE. I know not anything you dream of. I only SEE YOU as MY BELOVED. We are ONE. Hear ME NOW and FOREVER.

YOUR INFINTIE, ETERNAL, LOVING CONSCIOUSNESS-AWARENESS.

When Baha’u’llah directs us to “Sacrifice all things”, what is he speaking about? What does this really mean?

He is not speaking about people giving their possessions away in the world, all the while believing they have some inherent value. That would just be switching an experience of feeling comfort for another experience of feeling discomfort. Or switching an experience of temporary satisfaction for another experience of feeling temporary unsatisfaction. No. Rather, when He speaks of sacrificing all “things”, He is speaking of turning away from the illusion of things; (the believed in independent separateness of thoughts, beliefs, concepts, feelings, sensations and perceptions), and turning to the One Experience that knows them. This is the Knowing Reality, God, the True Nature of OurSelf. It’s about ceasing being exclusively fascinated by whatever one is objectively aware “of” and being interested instead in the experience of one’s own awareness of simply being aware.

Ask yourself, “Are you aware, right now?”

This is the key to the Kingdom, not in some future exotic state-of-mind experience of bliss & enlightenment. Being aware is right now, right here. It’s ordinary. It’s simple. It’s one, unified, experience. It’s Oneness.

All objective, divided experience includes all those “things” to sacrifice. They include the illusion of “things” that thought has called “body, mind & world”. These concepts are illusion. These “things” are not the things we ‘think’ they are. They are only “called” body, mind & world, implying they are real separate objects, separate entities, separate things. They are not. Their Reality lies hidden behind another illusion; and these are simply a cluster of thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions within awareness. And the Reality of these “illusory things” lie hidden behind the experience of thinking, feeling, sensing & perceiving within awareness.

The experiences of thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving, are still illusory things, but we are getting closer and closer to their Reality. It is the multiplicity of illusions of Reality that Bahaullah says we must turn away from, not the One, Unified Reality. If we are to know Him, God, our True Reality, our True Awareness, then we must keep going.

So, digging deeper, what is thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving made of? How do we know of their existence?

Turning to the experience of knowing that knows all things, this is where we will find God, Truth and the Reality of body, mind and world.

All experience of thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving, are made out of the direct experience of the of being aware, of the non-experience of “knowing”, independent of what is known.

Therefore, and in conclusion, all “things” that Bahaullah has commanded we sacrifice, (or as I would call surrender), is really the “objective experience of body, mind & world”. We don’t actually give their Reality up, we give up their illusions.

The stuff which makes up the illusion of body, mind & world is the objective experience of “thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions”; which are, in turn, made up of the objective experience of thinking feeling, sensing and perceiving. Going deeper, and to the True Reality of all things in these objectives experiences is the non-objective, infinite, ever-present Direct experience of “being aware”. It is the most simple, and fundamental non-experience that is our very Truth, our very Being; God’s very Being.

All bodies, all minds, all worlds: their objective qualities are illusory thoughts that ultimately and originally point to the reality of the pure, direct experience of Pure knowing. What every “thing” has in common with every other “thing” is the One Experience of Knowing; of Being aware. It is a direct, non-objective, ever-present experience, without limits, of being aware of Pure awareness itself.

This is our True Purpose here & now: to disentangle our One, Pure, Direct Experience of being aware, from the notion that all “things” have an inherent, separate existence apart from our One Experience of knowing. It is in the thoughts & beliefs of “separate things” that take our attention away from our One Experience of being aware. This is the Oneness we all know in Truth. It’s not a belief, it’s the Direct experience of God, of Our Beingness, our Singleness, Truth of Truths, Reality of Realities.

Definition of an illusion:     something that exists, but is not what it appears to be.

First, for anything to exist, it must be experienced by an experiencer.  No one has ever experienced a square circle; therefore, a square circle does not exist, and is not an illusion.

Something that doesn’t exist is not an illusion.

Definition of Reality:    the non-objective, ever-present experience of being aware, and knowing this awareness as the only Reality there is.

Body, mind, or world are illusions; they exist, but are not what they seem to be.  The reality of these illusions are known in the objective experience of thoughts, images, concepts, beliefs, feelings, desires, sensations and perceptions.  Looking deeper, these illusions are known through the objective experience of thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving.  And these illusions are known through the Direct Experience of being aware. All there is to illusion, then is the knowing of Being aware.

The body is simply a cluster of feelings and sensations, which are only experienced as feeling & sensing.

Mind is simply a cluster of thoughts and images, which are only experienced as thinking & imagining.

World is simply a cluster of perceptions (sights/sounds/tastes/textures/ & smells), which are only experienced as perceiving. (seeing/hearing/tasting/touching/smelling).

So, body, mind, world, thoughts, images, feelings, desires, sensations and perceptions are not what they seem to be.  They exist, but they are an illusion of an ‘objective experience’.  Their reality is not in their separate experiences, but from the one experience of being aware.  All illusion has its reality in being aware of being aware.

For example. 

The illusion is “A sound came from the sky”.

The illusion is ‘sound’.  It implies that it is some ‘thing’ separate and apart from experience.

The reality (of the illusion “sound”) is not the sound ‘itself’, but in the present experience of hearing; and the reality of the illusion “hearing” is found in the direct & present experience of BEING AWARE. There is no separate sound; that’s the illusion.

The illusion is ‘sky’. It implies that it is some ‘thing’ separate and apart from experience.

The reality (of the illusion “sky”) is not the sky ‘itself’, but in the present experience of seeing.

Now, because the event has passed, it is now a memory.

The reality (of the illusion “memory/image”) is in the present experience of imagining/remembering.

The reality (of the illusion “imagining/remembering”) is in the present experience of thinking, and the reality of the illusion “thinking”, is found in the present experience of BEING AWARE. There is no separate sky or memory of sky; that’s the illusion.

As Jesus said,

“Those who have eyes, let them see.”

“Those who have ears, let them hear.”

No one can come to Reality, except through the experience of Reality, through the direct experience of Being aware of being aware.

Be aware in the reality of things, not in their illusion.

The reality of the illusion of “suffering”, for example, is the experience of physical pain, mental pain, emotional pain and spiritual pain. (disease, depression, shame, guilt, loss, grief, fear, lack, envy, anger, desire, jealousy, boredom, loneliness, etc.)

These have existence; they are experienced.  But they are illusions, for they are not what they seem to be.

The reality of the illusion of pain is made of the experience of beliefs, concepts, ideas, images, feelings, sensations, and perceptions.  These objects of experience exist, but they are illusions too. They are not what they seem to be.

The reality of these illusory ‘objects of experience’ are made of the experience of thinking, imagining, sensing, feeling, & perceiving. These activities of mind exist, but they are illusions too.  They are not what they seem to be.

The reality of the illusion of thinking is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of imagining is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of sensing & feeling is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The reality of the illusion of perceiving is made of the experience of knowing or being aware.

The illusion of all ‘objective experience’ (everything above) has its Root Reality in the ‘non-objective’ ever-present experience of being aware.

All illusions have a reality.

Behind every illusion, is its Reality.

That reality is found in the primary element of all experience: Awareness being aware of ItSelf.

There is no such thing as experiencing an illusion without experiencing its Reality behind it. The Root of all Illusions is found in the direct experience of Being aware of being aware.

Another example:

“I am sitting in front of my computer, typing.”

Lets see what the reality of this illusion is.

The reality of “I am sitting in front of my computer typing”, is the objective experience of thinking, imagining, conceptualizing, sensing, feeling, & seeing/touching/hearing.

The reality of these illusions is made of the direct experience of knowing; being aware.

I am having the experience of being aware. If this is true, then I must be experiencing its reality. What is the reality of being aware?

The reality of being aware, (including what I am aware of) is being aware of being aware.

The Reality of ‘everything’ that is experienced in awareness is Being Aware of Awareness ItSelf. There is nothing that exists outside of being aware.  This is all there is to know; to know the Reality of one’s own aware Self.