राम
Awareness & Attention

What Is That You Know That Does Not Come and Go?

2019-08-01|30:45-34:50|Watch on YouTube

Ananta invites seekers to discover the unchanging awareness or 'I am' that remains constant while all experiences, thoughts, and phenomena arise and dissolve.

So it’s very, very, very straight forward actually. The way that it is prescribed is to come to intuitive Self-recognition. tiow to come to intuitive Self-recognition? For a moment, don’t bother with anything that changes, that comes and goes. What is that you know that does not come and go? And remember ‘that knowing’ will not be conceptual or perceptual. That’s it. Now, the troublemaker is only ‘but what do you really want?’ [Smile] Your Self-knowledge is very, very simple. But do you want Freedom from the cat or [you want to be a] be a free cat? Self-knowledge means there is no cat. So that does not help you become a free cat. And mostly whatever fancy things we may be saying, the fact is that we just want to be a free cat. This is the thing that trips us up, if there is something tripping us up. Like ‘What did ‘I’ get out of this?’ There is nobody to get anything or not. [Posing as the mind’s voice] Have ‘I’ got that? [Smile]

Key Teachings

  • There is an unchanging awareness or presence (the 'I am') that is always present, while all experiences, thoughts, and sensations come and go
  • The invitation is to recognize and know that which does not fluctuate - the witness consciousness itself
  • Everything that can be known or experienced is transient; only the knowing awareness itself is permanent
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From: What Is This Knowing That Is Not a Thought or a Perception? - 1st Aug 2019