You are now knowing your experience. That knowing – your essential self – always remains in the same condition. It does not share the changing qualities of the experience it illumines. It is unchanged, unmoved, imperturbable. Its nature is peace.

The known or experienced always changes, but the knowing with which all changing experience is known always remains the same . . .

Its . . . essential nature never changes. It is never modified by what it knows. Being the common, unchanging element in all experience, knowing, being aware or awareness itself does not share the qualities or,

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You are the unchanging screen of pure knowing, intimately one with every appearance yet never altered by it. Whatever arises in experience borrows its brief existence from this ever-present knowing, just as every image on a screen borrows its relative reality from the screen itself. When the scenes change, the screen remains; when experiences pass,... See more

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

All objective experience changes continually. Thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions are in a constant state of flux . . . However, each changing thought, feeling, sensation or perception is registered by the same knowing ‘I’, the common element in all experience. That knowing ‘I’ . . . remains the same throughout all experience.

This is what Krishnamurti meant when he said, ‘I don’t mind what happens.’ He didn’t mean that he was indifferent or uncaring. He meant that his peace, his well-being, was not derived from or dependent on the content of experience. His peace came from his being, not from some exalted or extraordinary state, but from the simple, ever-present fact of... See more

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.

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.

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