What Knows?

Once we see that ‘personal’ and ‘universal’ are just conceptual bookend labels created by the mind to try and package the un-packageable, they fall away.

They are understood to be objects of knowledge, whereas what we are pointing to is the prior presence that makes the thought of me or everything possible in the first place.

The realisation:
Language reaches its limit. We use words such as ‘awareness’ or ‘knowingness’ as pointers, but the words themselves are just more thoughts appearing in that which they are trying to describe.

If knowingness is the primary reality, it doesn’t need to be found or expanded.
It is already the case, regardless of what the mind is thinking or what the senses are reporting.

If it isn’t a personal possession and it isn’t a universal space, then we are pointing towards the idea that knowingness is the reality itself. It’s not a container for life or a tool for an individual; it’s the very essence of what is

It’s the difference between looking at the reflections in a mirror, and recognising the mirror-ness itself which isn’t the reflection, but which isn’t separate from it either.

Any attempt to describe or teach this knowingness is essentially just adding noise to something that is already perfectly silent and complete. 🙂

This is a pivotal insight.

In this sense, there is no me to own it, and no outside world for it to expand into.
There is simply the actuality of knowingness.

A simple smile says more than any philosophical text ever could. It’s the recognition that the answer isn’t a destination to arrive at, but the very presence that is already here, looking through those eyes.

Once the noise of seeking and defining stops, what remains doesn’t need a name.
Shall we leave it here, in that silence?
🙂