Everything That Appears Is Already Known
Todo lo que aparece ya es conocido
A reminder that everything you experience is already effortlessly noticed, and that this simple knowing needs nothing added to it.
Everything That Appears Is Already Known
Everything that's appearing
is by definition being noticed.
It's not appearing and not noticed.
If it appears, it's being noticed.
So there's nothing to do.
The sense of something needing to be done,
the sense of something missing,
something needed to be understood,
some shift needed to happen.
All of this is appearing and being noticed.
There's discomfort,
thoughts and beliefs and struggles and
storminess of the mind and emotions,
all of this.
If you are experiencing it, it's being noticed.
Effortless noticing
This noticing that is effortless
is the definition of something appearing.
You do not do this.
It appears.
It happens effortlessly.
This noticing nature,
this knowing nature,
I sometimes call it,
so simple,
so primary.
Just recognize that you even conceive of it as a background,
though it is not the background.
It's not separate from that which appears.
Whenever there is experience,
there is by definition the knowing of it.
To the mind, that is too simple.
This cannot be of any importance or value.
It's always here.
If there is experience,
there is the knowing of experience, effortlessly.
Where is the knowing?
Where is this knowing?
Where is this noticing?
Anything known about the knowing cannot be it.
This knowing is prior to anything.
Wakefulness itself.
Any sense of it having a location
is just another known experience.
The knowing precedes it.
All locations are known.
The knowing is locationless.
All appearance of time is known.
The knowing is timeless.
All sense of doing is known.
The knowing, there is no doing.
The sense of doing or not doing appears to the knowing; there is no difference.
The sense of struggle and not struggle can be known.
To knowing, there is no difference.
The sense of movement or rest is known, noticed.
To noticing, there is no difference.
The sense of suffering and not suffering is known.
To knowing, there is no difference.
Formless and empty
This knowing is formless, it is empty,
it is substanceless.
It's the knowing of all substances,
the origin of all thoughts,
all experience.
It is what the word "I" points to.
Any belief about this knowing,
about its form, about its origin,
is illusion.
Any sense of it being located in the body,
originating in the body or the mind,
is an appearance which is known,
so it cannot be it.
Any definition of it,
any sense of it, is appearing.
It is the Tao.
Anything said of the Tao is not the true Tao.
It is the gateless gate.
It is free, accepting all, embracing all.
Striving and resting are the same
To the knowing that is here,
the knowing of this striving appears,
resting appears.
To the knowing, they are the same.
The body-mind prefers pleasure, avoids pain.
To the knowing, they are the same.
The sense of preference is effortlessly known.
Without preference, without resistance.
The sense of resistance is known.
The sense of allowing, non-resisting is known.
To the knowing, there is no difference.
The mind wants to own it
The body-mind wants to capture this knowing,
make it its own,
own it, control it.
Define it.
Personalize it.
Make it you.
Make it "I," personal.
"I," known, knowable.
But the knowing sees all this,
notices all this,
embraces all this,
and is unaffected.
No matter how much you dive into thoughts and storms and struggles,
the knowing is right here,
unaffected,
untouched,
always has been.
Knowingness, beingness, bliss,
consciousness,
sat-chit-ananda.
Many words.