Our knowledge of our self is unique – the only knowledge that doesn’t occur in subject-object relationship. All other experience involves a knower and the known, but our knowledge of being is direct, unmediated. You can say with certainty ‘I am’ from direct experience. Only awareness can be aware, so when you say ‘I am’, you’re speaking on behalf of awareness referring to its self-knowledge. You cannot legitimately claim you don’t know yourself – this knowledge is your most ordinary, familiar experience. You don’t need decades of meditation to know yourself as awareness; you’re already aware of yourself. Looking for yourself with your mind is like trying to see your eyes with your eyes – there’s a void because awareness cannot separate from itself. Yet you know yourself by being yourself knowingly, just as the sun illuminates itself simply by being itself. In your own experience of yourself, there is no agitation – only perfect, imperturbable peace.
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Knowing Your Self Without Seeking
Duration: 59:14
Our knowledge of our self is unique – the only knowledge that doesn’t occur in subject-object relationship. All other experience involves a knower and the known, but our knowledge of being is direct, unmediated. You can say with certainty ‘I am’ from direct experience. Only awareness can be aware, so when you say ‘I am’, you’re speaking on behalf of awareness referring to its self-knowledge. You cannot legitimately claim you don’t know yourself – this knowledge is your most ordinary, familiar experience. You don’t need decades of meditation to know yourself as awareness; you’re already aware of yourself. Looking for yourself with your mind is like trying to see your eyes with your eyes – there’s a void because awareness cannot separate from itself. Yet you know yourself by being yourself knowingly, just as the sun illuminates itself simply by being itself. In your own experience of yourself, there is no agitation – only perfect, imperturbable peace.