It appears to me that you have overlooked Your Beloved Beauty. I am aware that you are caught in the loop of suffering. You resort to sweet praise, sweet flattery, sweet loyalty & sweet sacrifice in order to maintain your sweet illusion of love. If you sense your illusion of love beginning to fall apart, you resort to acting tough, speaking in defense and acting over-bearing through throwing insults, ridicule, opinions, explanations, advice, & blame.

“I beg of Thee, O my Best Beloved, to pardon me and those who earnestly seek to promote Thy Cause; Thou art indeed the One Who forgiveth the sins of all mankind. ”

The Bab

Selections from the writings of The Bab (p.4)

I beg of Thee, O my Best Beloved, to awaken me and others who so earnestly seek to promote the Thy Cause in name and form alone. Inspire us to turn our attention-seeking around and rest it upon Thee alone, to know and love only Thee alone; for Thou art indeed the only Cause Who can correct the mistaken identity of all knowing beings. Thou art the One and Only Cause Who bringeth Understanding to uncertainty & doubt, Who bringeth the Answer to questions, Who bringeth the Wisdom of Self-Knowledge to the ignorance of self belief, Who bringeth Happiness to unhappiness, Who bringeth Safety and Security to fear and doubt, Who bringeth Rest to restlessness, Who bringeth Peace to sorrow & suffering, Who bringeth Love & Compassion to shame & guilt, Who bringeth the Perfection of Beauty to perceived flaws & imperfections. Thou art indeed the One and Only Cause Who bringeth True Knowledge and Unity to belief and separation.

“From all eternity I have indeed recognized Thee and unto all eternity will ever do so through Thine Own Self and not through any one else besides Thee. “

The Bab

Selections from the writings of The Bab (p.4)

In the presence of the ever-present Knowing, I indeed recognize that Knowing is one, and am knowing this Oneness through being the knowing that is known, knowing the One Knowing knowing only Knowing. I know of no one else, no other knowing, besides the One Knowing. I am the Knowing knowing Itself alone.

There is a test to prove if I know the knowing reality of myself in the same way as the Knowing Reality knows Itself.

1. The Knowing Reality cannot appear or disappear.

2. The Knowing Reality cannot change.

3. The Knowing Reality cannot know anything other than Itself.

Let’s test it on my knowing reality:

1. I, knowing, have never experienced or known my own knowing appearing or disappearing; although the forms of  thinking-sensing-perceiving (and their objects) appear & disappear.

2. I, knowing, have never experienced or known my own knowing changing; although the forms of thinking-sensing-perceiving (and their objects) are ever-changing.

3. I have never experienced or known my own knowing, knowing anything other than Itself. There is no other knowing besides the ‘one knowing’ knowing itself.

Congratulations!!!! I know myself in the same way as the Knowing Reality knows Itself.

The knowing reality of myself and the Reality of Knowing is the SAME  REALITY.

I am not an object. I am not your object of addiction or anyone else’s. I am not an object that you believe you possess that you believe you can use (or abuse) whenever you “need” me, to distract yourself from the discomfort of your own intolerable feelings. Whether those feelings include restlessness, boredom, loneliness, or the well-known painful yearning to be seen, heard, loved and understood; I am not that object. I am not an object for anyone’s feelings of lack or fear. I am not an object for the temporary release of your unpleasant feelings. I am not an object with which you can use to mask your suffering in hopes to end your suffering. As an object, I am not your answer. As an object, you are not my answer. See that neither of us are in need of temporary relief. You and I share the same Unlimited Eternal Being. I am My own permanent answer, and You are Your own permanent answer. This is the True Love we share.

Believing myself a form,

I see only forms.

I know only fear.

I limit the intimate experience of myself

To the only activity I know;

‘Avoiding the discomfort of intolerable feelings’

Like enemies to be buried.

I repress them, suppress them, hide them;

I know not that the very distance from them

Is my very suffering

So, I persistently seek in their place,

The acquisition of some loving, understanding, or beautiful feeling;

Just to find out,

It won’t be long

For those buried forms to rise again;

To haunt my activities,

Of hiding and seeking.

 

Attraction is intimately known. Repulsion is intimately known. Desire is intimately known. Resistance is intimately known. Wanting is intimately known. Not-wanting is intimately known. In truth, none of these “knowns” bare the slightest difference from each other. One is no different than the other. They are exactly the same in that they are all equally & intimately “known”, and therefore, to be equally honoured in the same way. There is but One Known in reality: I am this Known; Self-Known; Pure Infinite Knowing. There is no other known but Me, the One Knowing. I am free to feel and know any desire in Me & free to feel and know any resistance in Me. I know them both as Love. In feeling them freely, I have all the information I need to act & relate accordingly. But, if I don’t know MySelf; if I live in fear and hiding, just to relate with you as a limited “loving emotion and agreeable appearance”, I would need to “go-against” and deny the vast array of feelings that arise in Me. But, why would I do such a thing now that I know what I am?
There is no sane reason. Denial of MySelf is madness. I am the Truth. I am the Love. I am Happiness. I am Happy when I am MySelf.

The purpose of the Unlimited Ever-Present Knowing is for me to know the unlimited, ever-present knowing in myself, as Myself. Knowing extends Itself as Its own Known creation.  This is also known as Knowing. There is only one known Knowing and one known Known. It is the same Knowing that I know. Unlimited, Ever-Present Knowing renders Itself knowable in my knowing. It’s the same Knowing. There is no other Knowing but Pure Knowing. In order to know myself as Pure Unlimited Knowing, I must allow the Knowing to infiltrate the current ‘objective’ experience (called by thought as ‘thinking-feeling-sensing-perceiving’) until Pure Knowing is experienced and known as the one and only indivisible experience in Reality; called by no other name but Pure Nameless Knowing.

When I don’t make my stand as knowing myself this Way, I become lost in a limited belief about myself, ignorantly engaging in temporary pleasure-seeking & pain-resisting activities, believing in concepts such as the body, mind & world. The natural consequence to believing in concepts is the perpetual activity of separating and suffering. So, when I begin to understand Myself to be the Unlimited Ever-Present Knowing, all there is to experience is the non-objective experience of Peace & Happiness. 

All I need to know is on whose behalf I am acting and relating. All I need to know is what is informing my experiences and decisions to act.  

I am deciding & acting on behalf of belief when I am experiencing fear, doubt, separation & suffering within Myself.

I am deciding & acting on behalf of Pure Knowing when I am experiencing Peace & Happiness. Simply knowing to decide and act on behalf of Pure Knowing is My One Happiness.

The separating activity of ‘doubting and questioning’ disappears when it is understood clearly that all there is to the experience of thinking is pure knowing. This is known as Wisdom.  

The separating activity of ‘longing & resisting’ disappears when it is felt clearly that all there is to the experience of feeling-sensing is pure knowing.  This is known as Love.

The separating activity of ‘comparing/contrasting’ disappears when it is seen clearly that all there is to the experience of seeing-hearing-tasting-touching-smelling is pure knowing. This is known as Beauty.

Knowing Pure Knowing as what I am, collapses belief, is understood as Truth, and known as Wisdom, celebrated in written & spoken language.

Knowing Pure Knowing as what I am, collapses belief, is felt as Happiness & Peace, and known as Love, celebrated in relationship. 

Knowing Myself as Pure Knowing, collapses belief , is perceived as Beauty, known as Beauty, celebrated using the objects of perception. This is known as artistic expression. 

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.  

 

Divine Correction is to understand the error of identity; which is the error of reality.

The Error of Identity/Error of Reality: “I am a temporary ‘object’ in continuous time with a ‘conscious-mind’ seeking and avoiding other temporary objects of experience in order to find fulfillment in an ever-changing world in permanent space.

Correction: I am the Knowing of  ‘errors and corrections’; errors and corrections being known in experience.  The direct experience of thinking, ‘believing’, sensing & perceiving is lit up with the Light of knowing. It is the Light of Knowing that is known not the objects of experience.  The Light of Knowing is known by nothing other than the Knowing Itself.  I am the only one who can know and who does know the fact that I know Myself, Knowing.

I am the Ever-Present, Changeless, Formless, Limitless Knowing out of which the intermittent experience of thinking-sensing-perceiving is known, but in which its content tells a story where a ‘continuous-time-like, past-future body-mind resides.

I am the Ever-Present, Changeless, Formless, Limitless Knowing out of which the intermittent experience of thinking-sensing-perceiving is known, but in which its content tells a story where an ‘unlimited-like, space-like’ perceptual world & universe reside.

To know Myself & to know Reality is to abide in the Knowing of experience; not the content of experience (the stories that thoughts tells about pure experience)  I look not to content, concepts or qualities of experience to know Myself or Reality.  I only look at experience as Pure Knowing Itself. It is the one and only element that shines in Reality. It is what I am.

It is My known experience that I am ever-present (eternal). I never intimately or directly experience my own appearance or disappearance.

It is My known experience that I am unlimited (infinite). I never intimately or directly experience Myself changing.  I am always known to Myself by the same knowing  that I am known by.

It is My known experience that I never know something other than Knowing.

It is also My known experience that I am never known by something other than Myself.

The Reality of Myself is Knowing. The Knowing of Myself is Reality. I am the Knowing of Reality. I am the Reality of Knowing.

I allow the Divine Correction to wash all error from existence.

All knowing is the same knowing known in all known experience.