83. Knowing is ‘what is’.

'Knowing' of content does not necessarily imply 'contents' to knowing, as separately existing apart from the knowing of it. Even if there is one chance, that can reveal that all objects in the knowing  (or known content) is simply the knowing of it, rather than the known, as a separate content, the truth about the 'game of objects' as an independent reality, is out of the bag. The importance of this detail, is the only fundamental thing that needs to be recognised in life. For example, knowing of a thought ( or thinking) is all there is, and there is no thought, outside of such knowing, where knowing of the thought, 'is' the thought. Similarly, knowing of pain is pain,  knowing of the world is the world, etc., meaning the objective world is simply a knowing. Visual knowing, audible knowing, knowing knowing knowing, as if such knowing has known sensations that can be imagined to make up a world of objects.

It means a lot in terms of ‘seeking’. We seek to know the truth of what we are and spend a lifetime until seeking finally stops to end the seeker in the track of seeking. Finally what is noticed is that, Knowing is ‘what is’ and 'what was' and 'what will be' and there is the only this ‘isness’ of what we think is the 'world' or 'ourselves' as separate from each other.

Awareness 'as' context is all there is but feels as if Awareness 'as' content. Even that is to say too much. Awareness is all there is. Content as separate from Awareness, is only an idea imagined to be true but not. That is the illusion or Maya, that makes feel awareness of separate contents 'in' awareness, simply by the 'aware-ing' of it. It is then taken as awareness 'of' contents, which are being assumed real and solid, separate from 'only' being aware of them. This is further interpreted as 'contents' in awareness and believed to be true and such mental conditioning becomes the basis of living as separate 'beings'.

So Awareness or ‘knowing’ is ‘what is’ and this ‘isness’ is what knowing itself is, that is eternal or not subject to time. There is nothing outside of knowing to know and so all ‘that is known’ is nothing but the ‘knowing’ of it, and it just ‘is’, not to a ‘me’ or to another, to know the knowing, as if to sentient beings.

What we are, is the capacity to know, or what 'knowing' itself is and this ‘we’ that we think we are, as separate individual entities, is some illusory knowing. Knowing cannot know itself as its content, or as known, as the activity, cannot be made an object of itself. Meaning to say, a context can be described with contents, but when the context and contents are one and the same, and cannot be separated to be judged individually and equated, context is only what is, or give it another name, contents is only what is.

A dream is just its knowing of it. There isn’t a dreamer dreaming a dream. There is just dreaming. Now dreaming is the dreamer and the story of the dream is its contents. Likewise, knower is the knowing  and also the contents of knowing as the known. To make ‘sense’ of it, one must take a place outside of it, to know it and so, it cant be it, because, It includes it. Knowing has this typical capacity of being wholeness and its contents at the same time like context being the contents. There is no other, either as knower or as known that can be said to be outside of knowing.

Presence is another word. ‘What is’ is same as to mean, what presently is. To be ‘is’, is to be present and to be present is to know it. The issue here is that, we lay stress on the contents of knowing as if there is a ‘known’ aspect to it. To do this, knowing has to objectified or given meaning to. So what is- becomes what is happening, as if the happening is a meaningful way to know what is. Happening is only an assumption of what is and any reality that is given to any objective apparent happening, is only a story line being fed to make ‘feeling’ into ‘felt. So what is, has to be ‘interpreted’ into into contents, as if separate and meaningful, outside of what is, and a story line, as if eventful, in time and space, must be built up. Such magic is the power of intelligence to convert 'what is' into 'what is happening in time, as an event'. The happening can thus have backward projection as past or memory and forward projection as imagination or plan etc and the process of breaking up what is into apparent independent parts take shape. Reality thus comes in as apparent feel of such story line and experienced as time and events in time.

The 'feel' of 'now' or looks of 'now' keep changing continually. Each content changes shape and place, as if to make feel  'movement' or 'growth'. This develops into a story line of such change, with likes and dislikes to colour the story. The story becomes the truth in imagination, and a part of such a story is referencing a 'me' story to this body.

However, all there is, is what is or pure knowing and not what is ‘happening’ as nothing ever is happening. Truth simply Is and expresses itself as an isness of what is logically happening, as if logic comes alive with cause and effect as its theme causing ‘what is’ or knowing into what is ‘happening’.

So not to worry about 'Life' as nothing is happening, other than just a knowing of it, like a happening, happening in the dream. Relax and be free.