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How Do You Know Your Experience?
The perceiver of all experience cannot itself be perceived, yet it is the unshakeable knowing presence - we already are what we seek.
Seeker
Abider.
Ananta
Abider! Yes. [Smile] The abider has to be who? Forget about it. Try to in fact leave this. Leave the un-manifest one, who is Aware of this percepHon, this realm of percepHons. Try to do that let us see if you succeed. You say ‘I have had enough of the Truth. I am going to play see it does not help anyway. I am going to leave it.’ So do not be Aware. Can you do it? You cannot do it. So forget about that. Forget about that.
Key Teachings
- The perceiver of all experience cannot itself be perceived - it is the background witness that knows without needing concept or perception
- Self-knowledge is unique: it is known unshakeably even when all senses leave, without requiring any attribute or experience
- We already are what we seek - the witness consciousness is already present, like 'the fish is thirsty in the water'
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From: How Do You Know Your Experience? - 11th June 2021