' Knowing the Knowing '...

All experiences fall into two categories: knower and known. The knower is the sense of the subject knowing and the known is the sense of an object known.

Both are two ends of a single pole called “knowing”. The division into a knower and it’s known, is a conceptual division that doesn’t actually exist. What does exist is the “knowing”. The knowing is the subject as well as the object, but not divided in two.

The “stuff” of all experience is this undivided “knowing”. The experiences of the five senses are NOT a sensory perception AND the knowing of it.

A color is an undivided moment of knower/known. The color IS the knowing of it. There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having perceptions of colors.

A sound is an undivided moment of knower/known. The sound IS the knowing of it. There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having perceptions of sounds.

This holds true for all five sense experiences.

But let’s include thoughts as well:

A thought is an undivided moment of knower/known. The thought IS the knowing of it. It doesn’t matter if the thought is true or fiction. There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having thoughts.

A wisdom insight is an undivided moment of knower/known. The wisdom insight IS the knowing of it. There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having wisdom insights.

There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having difficult emotional states. But the knowing can appear as though a “someone” is experiencing difficult emotional states, like in a dream at night.

There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having painful sensations. But the knowing can appear as though a “someone” is experiencing painful sensations, like in a dream at night.

There is “no one” as an observer experiencing or having moments of suffering. But the “knowing” can appear as though a “someone” is experiencing moments of suffering, like in a dream at night.

It’s not that the “knowing” has textured characteristics, but that the knowing IS textured characteristics.

Seeking is the “knowing” appearing as a seeking seeker without being a seeker. The “seeker” would be an imaginary division into being a subject that seeks.

If a moment of “knowing” appearing as anything, is looked into, each experience would be found to be empty, like an ungraspable cloud in the sky.

The empty quality of the knowing experience itself prevents it from ever actually becoming a real something with inherent characteristics that endure.

The dualistic distortion only “seems” to occur when the “knowing” appears as either a separate knower or as a separate known. But even then no dualism has actually ever appeared, how could it, seeing that every experience is always the knowing being exactly that experience?

You are only ever the “knowing” appearing AS everything possible, without being a knower, witness, perceiver or observer. Each moment of experience is its own knowing.

The “knowing” can also appear as a wisdom or glimpse that knows the “knowing” in its deepest, and non-dual nature.. (Like maybe right now)


-Jackson Peterson