Because You Know That You Are

Our primary experience is awareness of being. We express this in the first person when we say, ‘I know that I am’, which everyone can say with absolute certainty. This highest knowledge, towards which all great spiritual traditions aim, is the consummation of all knowledge and experience, and the source of all knowledge and experience. You can say with absolute certainty that you are – ‘I am’ – because you know that you are. Awareness of being is the only experience not in subject-object relationship; a unitary experience. Awareness of other things – thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions – obscures our primary awareness of self. We fall asleep in the experience of the world and overlook our self. Our self refracts through thought and perception; it gets lost in its own creativity, like one who falls asleep and gets lost in their dream. What we do here is not about acquisition or enlightenment – it’s just deep self-remembrance, self-seeking, self-abidance.