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All there is - is Knowing A guide to a direct, unmediated Knowing of your own true nature Wakefulness by Gilbert W. Schultz
In the belief and appearance of being an individual, your true nature, which is the open nature of the innite, has entered into a nite situation. This text is presented as a pointer, through which you may discover how you entered into this nite aspect. This knowing is a return to that which you have never left - the immediate actuality of your own true nature.
tihun loka ujaagara This light (of Knowing) illuminates the three worlds. - from an Indian song
Contents Foreword Prologue Authentic Being What is the First Instant? All Psychological Suffering is Completely Unnecessary The Struggle Ordering Information for The First Instant 3 4 8 9 14 15 17
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reveal to you why that is so. In the rst instant of the pure functioning of seeing-knowing there in you and here in me and in every single sentient being on this ball of consciousness, which we call Earth, is the very same seeing-knowing. It is not two. It appears as many, however it never divides at all. It is the pure functioning of One without a second. Those who imagine that they need to rene this immediate knowing are misled. It is pure knowing in its immediate pure functioning. It does not require any rening at all. It is only the mind that aligns itself with this pure intelligence or not. Realization appears in the mind but the ever-present fact of seeing-knowing is the light that illuminates or is the essence of any true realization. The only thing that appears to obscure this ever-present fact of direct illumination is the belief in being a person, a false center called me or whatever. Most obscuring factors depend on this belief in a false center. Read this book from this perspective: You are pure knowing which is instant and ever present. You are not the content of mind, which appears to grasp at some knowledge for its survival. In the most authentic aspect of yourself, you are the light of knowing and nothing more that. I am (you are) the light of the world. A direct and simple introduction to this First Instant is: All there is is direct cognition. It is the rst instant of knowing. There is nothing else, anywhere, at any time. The various patterns, shapes and forms appearing within and before you are just this direct cognition Awareness. It is nothing but Awareness. The world is pure energy. All its patterns, shapes and forms are appearances within the realm of direct cognition. There are numerous names for this and all names are within the realm of mind and this, in essence is pure, direct cognition. That is all. All is That. All there IS, is KNOWING. There are no appearances, which can be separate from this. All appearances are registered in direct cognition. In essence all appearances are nothing but this direct and immediate expression of awareness. Dont take my word for it pause and look see for yourself. It is obvious. No appearance has any independence whatsoever from this directness. Look and see for yourself. Even the terms Non-Duality or Oneness are just words or concepts appearing within the realm of direct cognition. You are this direct cognition. KNOWING. You are nothing but this. Simply BE the seeing; it is the knowing of this directly. You do not have to think about it. You will not come to this through thought alone. It is instantly here prior to thinking. It is unprocessed direct seeing. Seeing knowing not two. This profundity is a kick in the teeth for the intellect, which is a borrower. All that seemingly arises within the immediacy of this experiential realm (mind) is nothing but direct cognition. It is nothing but this. It does not split into two. If you repeatedly return to this pointer, it will unfold all the complications of mind stuff. It is not a mantra. It is simply knowing itself.
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whether you afrm it or deny it, it does not make a scrap of difference in the immediate knowing. You are this knowing; it is not going to come in some future time. It is right now! Right now is all there IS it is presence/awareness. The Ultimate truth can be nowhere other than right here in this rst instant of knowing. It is clearly evident without any thought or process in mind. Without any mind contortions or contrived actions in trying to see this ever-present evidence, it is found to be nothing but this instant of knowing. Seeing-knowing is spontaneously happening. Not one speck of anything other than itself is in this space of knowing. It has been referred to as space-like awareness. In this, nothing is created and nothing is destroyed since its very essence or nature is emptiness. Therefore, even logically, in the mind, you can determine once and for all, that there is no one that can get it or not get it. All such nonsense is merely the apparent comings and goings of appearances in mind. That is why I say: Dont waste time trying to change your conditioned mind simply be the seeing of it.
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