Knowing alone is, and you are that without being ‘you’.

All things borrow their apparent existence from pure knowing; nothing stands apart from it with an existence of its own.

In this recognition, the great enquiry comes full circle. What began as an investigation into the nature of mind reveals the mind’s own essence as pure knowing, the one, unbroken reality that shines in and as every experience.

To realise this is to come to the end of the search for reality, for meaning, for peace. Reality is not elsewhere. It is this knowing presence, the one element in your experience that never changes, never comes or goes, never begins or ends. It is the only constant, the ever-present essence of all that appears. Indeed, it is all there is to... See more

If we look for anything outside knowing, we find only more knowing. If we look for anything inside knowing, we find only more knowing. If we look for the knower apart from knowing, we cannot find one. There is only knowing – knowing itself, knowing only knowing. And this knowing is what you are, without being a ‘you’ or a self apart from this... See more

You have never, nor could you ever, experience anything other than the knowing of experience. Every moment of life – every sensation of the body, every perception of the world, every flicker of thought or imagination – is made of knowing alone. Knowing is the only substance that is ever known, the only reality that is ever present.

All there is to the sight of these words is the knowing of them. All there is to a thought is the knowing of it. All there is to a feeling, to an emotion, to the taste of tea, to the sound of rain or the sight of the world is the knowing of it. Knowing is the substance, the reality, the essence of every experience.

Just as the screen is not only the background of a film but the single reality of which every image is made, so pure knowing is not just the context of your experience but the essence of it. Whatever appears – thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions – appears within and as this knowing. The knowing and the known are never two.

Having discovered that what you essentially are – pure knowing, awareness or consciousness – is the knowing element that runs continuously through all experience like a golden thread, or the ever-present background of experience like the screen behind a film, we may now take the next and most radical step. This pure knowing is not simply the... See more