How Do We Know What Is Real?

How do we know what is real?

First, we have to start with the word ‘know’. If we cannot know, then we cannot verify anything, so the ability to know is our starting point.

Knowingness is the only constant in our life. Whatever we think we know about is changeable, but knowingness stays the same. It has never changed throughout our life.

It is this knowingness that is the reality, and the truth of our being. It is pure awareness, pure consciousness, pure perception that can be experienced directly, simply. No complication needed.

If you believe in God, your life will be one of simple peace.
If you make belief complicated and divisive, your life will one of woes.

Our problem is knowing about a subject. Knowing about describes a quality, but it’s not the thing itself. This is where we are deceived, in that we only think we know.

It’s a subtle twist on reality, and we fall for it all the time. The cleverer we think we are, the further we move away from the truth. This is our clever-clever, clever-dicky dark side that is blessed by Mara. 🙂

The ability to know is our starting point.
It is also the ultimate realisation.

Clever-clever, clever-dicky: a person who is irritatingly and ostentatiously knowledgeable.