How Do We Know The Truth?

When asked this question, we generally refer to something ‘out there’. We then have to ask the question, “How do we know what is true in our own minds about what is out there?” So we have two dilemmas: that ‘out there’ and that ‘in here’ that thinks about that out there 😉

Jesus said…
“The Kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you,
not in mansions of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood…and I am there.
Lift a stone…and you will find me”.

The way in which words are presented to us is incredibly important. There is a literal meaning and an expedient meaning, which could then be split into generalisations, or misdirections. This is why it’s difficult to know the truth about what’s ‘out there’, but fortunately, we can know the truth ‘in here’…thank goodness! We need to see the complete picture:

“The truth is inside you, and all around you,
not in mansions of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood…and I am there.
Lift a stone…and you will find truth”.

What is within us that recognises the truth? Who splits the wood? Who lifts the stone? More to the point, what is this perception that sees, recognises, and knows? In the quotation from Jesus, truth is inside us and when we look, we find the truth. The truth is in our own recognition, for without that nothing would be known. That is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega.

This recognition, this knowingness is our own pure awareness – our essential nature. Without this, nothing would be known. That is the kingdom of heaven, the centre of wisdom. This is what we already are.

We keep muddling the words – or having the words muddled for us! ‘Someone’ at some time rearranged the words to confuse us, to keep us looking outside ourselves. There is nothing ‘out there’ that has any reality: the reality is within.

We are this pure awareness. That is what is found when we split a piece of wood, or lift a stone – pure open intelligent awareness. It is not that we will find the “Kingdom of God” under a stone: truth is in the looking, in the recognition of one’s pure awareness. That is the wonderful twist. However, instead of resting in this pure awareness – our natural state – we then built mental mansions, embellishing them with concepts with help of the ignorance of the world around us. Why do you think ‘they’ did that?

How do we know the truth? We merely have to recognise that we are the truth! There is no thing else. Within and without is pure awareness – the Alpha and Omega – and an acceptance of this same purity in everyone else.

That is a meeting of minds. That is pure spirituality. That is love. Religion merely separates us.

You already know this.
You are the beginning and the end of your search.