Only you can know you, for only you are you. Right? You are the only authority on the nature of what you are.
Are you, you?
The 'yes' that silently or overtly is affirmed in you is the confirmation that only you can know you.
So, then, can anyone tell you what you really are?
The only one who knows you directly is you, thus only you can confirm what you are.
So, what are you? Who knows?
Any answer I would give you, would not give you the Self that you already are. You are already yourself.
Can I tell you what you are? No. What then is this written contemplation all about? I am merely pointing to the knowing that is already available in you, as you, for you to confirm for yourself.
If I tried to give you a conceptual definition of who you are, wouldn't you already be here, being and knowing the essence and totality of what you always are, before I could offer a superfluous superimposition of a definition?
You don't need a conceptual definition to appear in order to know what you really, essentially are, for you are what you are before any and all such defining processes of thinking. Knowing yourself is not dependent upon thought.
Your nature is to know 'I am myself', without the need to say or think 'I am myself.' It's a silent knowing that you cannot switch off or on. You can't acquire more of this knowing. 'I am myself' is complete, timeless experiential knowledge.
Any definition of thought that could be offered to you would not actually define you. It would merely define the fact that thought is conjuring up a concept of you. Are you a concept?
The essential you is not conjured by thought. You are a very real, unimagined experience.
But what kind of experience is being yourself?
Observing the whole panorama of experience, we can note that there are four distinct aspects to experience; thoughts, sensations, perceptions and Awareness. Check this out now. Can you find anything other than thoughts, sensations, perceptions and Awareness in your immediate experience?
No. That's all there is. So what is it going to be? The 'it' in question being you, of course. What are you?
The real, essential, irreducible self of you must be that which is ever-here and unchanging.
Thoughts come, change and go. Therefore they cannot be essential to you.
Sensations come, change and go. Therefore they cannot be essential to you.
Perceptions come, change and go. Therefore they cannot be essential to you.
Awareness…
What's Awareness up to?
Just hanging out, ever-presently.
Are you ever not aware?
If you say, 'yeah sure there are moments when I'm not aware.'
Who is it that is aware that you're supposedly not aware?
It is You, Awareness, being aware of the thought that suggests you are not aware. Awareness, the self, 'I', is never unaware of itself. Its nature is being aware of itself, as an absolutely silent, non-objective presence.
Pure Awareness alone is the ever-present self called 'I.' You are not essentially a thought, sensation or perception for these are not always present.
Your real, essential, irreducible nature is pure Awareness, undefined and unlimited. When thoughts, sensations and perceptions have vanished - and they all vanish - all that remains as Reality is pure Awareness, your self.
Don't take my word for it. See for yourself if these words are true for you.
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