Absolute Truth is Not Knowing Any 'Thing'

Consciousness is present. That fact is undeniable. Even the attempt to deny the presence of Consciousness arises within Consciousness itself, and so the very act of denial serves only as confirmation of what it aims to refute.

Whether thought confirms or denies the presence of Consciousness, such a thought makes no difference to Consciousness' experience of being conscious.

Consciousness remains as it always, ever-presently is; conscious.

The very nature of Consciousness is to be conscious of - that is, to know - its own presence. All there is, substantially, within Consciousness is Consciousness. As such, the only Substance for Consciousness to know within itself is Consciousness.

Consciousness is a self-knowing Substance.

The Consciousness of itself, the knowing of itself, is not what Consciousness does from time to time. Consciousness is conscious of its presence constantly. That is what it is; the Consciousness of itself.

The attribute of self-knowingness is intrinsic to Consciousness.

Whether the mind arises or not, Consciousness knows itself. Consciousness is conscious of itself during the appearance of thought, and during its absence. As such, Consciousness is not dependent upon the appearance of thought, nor is its knowing of itself dependent upon the appearance of thought. Consciousness knows itself, without the agency of thought.

Moreover, Consciousness knows that it is present during the appearance of all forms of perception and during their absence. Every sense perception -  such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling - comes and goes, yet Consciousness remains immutably present. Therefore, Consciousness is not dependent upon the appearance of sense perception, nor is its knowing of itself dependent upon sense perception.

In the absence of thought and perception, there is no actual experience of the mind, body or cosmos at large. There is no evidence that they are fundamental to Reality. For when they are removed, and Reality remains as it fundamentally is, they are not present there. What is present there? What is present as Reality when thought and perception have disappeared?

Consciousness is present, conscious of itself, by itself, alone. That is the experience Reality is fundamentally to itself.

'Reality is' and 'Consciousness is' are both statements that point to one truth that does not rely on anything other than or outside itself to be known. Reality is conscious, as this very Consciousness reading these words, and that Consciousness of itself is Reality's self-evidence.

Reality-Consciousness is the silent, non-conceptual, non-perceptual evidence of itself.

The pure experience of Reality-Consciousness is the abode of absolute truth. That is, the truth of its presence is not reliant on phenomenal conditions, nor is its truth relative to anything other than itself.

Every piece of information that exists, throughout the entire panorama of thoughts, sensations and sense perceptions, is composed of dualistic counterparts. Examples of this include the relationship between up and down, left and right, space and solid, subject and object, current and not-current, and the list goes indefinitely on. At their basis, these relationships are defined by the conception of what a thing is and therefore what its complementary opposite is. Once we have conceptually defined what a thing is, we - by the nature of the defining process - define what is not this thing. The moment we conceive of the notion of 'up', we have 'down'. Precisely one way of defining 'up' is that it is the opposite of 'down'.

The same goes for non-conceptual phenomena like sensations and perceptions. Both of these are basically composed of movement; vibration varying in frequency and amplitude. That vibration is a patterned movement that repeats its pattern through time. And what is time but another regular patterned movement. So all we have in this experienced flow of sensation and perception, down to the nano-scales of observation, is patterned movement, or more simply put; change. And by nature, change is dualistic because for change to be noticed or defined, there must be two contrasting points; a before and an after, this and that, what was and what is current. Without at least two distinguishable states, change cannot even be conceived.

The entire show of creation is formed from the basic ingredient of this dualistic dynamic. As such, all the information that is rendered - that appears as the display of the mind, body and cosmos at large - can only give us dualistic, relative facts that merely have legitimacy and validity from within the limited frame of reference of temporal creation. They cannot tell us anything about the nature and attributes of the ultimate non-dual source from which they arise. They cannot tell us what the absolute, timeless truth of Reality is. Only that which precedes the beginning of creation and duality can know that truth. Only Reality-Consciousness can know itself as it truly is.

Prior to the entire arising of information - and by implication, prior to the arising of the first glimmer of duality - Reality-Consciousness is present, all by itself. Prior to information, prior to the in-forming, the formation of objectivised experience, there is no form or objectivity to behold by Consciousness. There is only the truth of its essential, irreducible experience: being present and conscious, all alone as only itself. Of course, such a statement - which is appearing here as a coalescence of information - is not present in this essential, irreducible experience of Consciousness. There is just pure Consciousness. As such, Consciousness knows this truth of its unlimited Oneness without knowing it conceptually, sensationally or perceptually.

Thusly, the experience of 'enlightenment' or 'nirvikalpa samadhi' - which is the direct knowing of Reality-Consciousness' essential nature - is a silent, non-conceptual, non-perceptual knowing.

Therefore, to really reveal Reality-Consciousness, simply stay in and abide as the silence which precedes the arising of thought and perception. Know yourself as that unconditional silence which is present irrespective of the appearance of information or its absence. And experience silence as the very Substance of all existence.

By simply being this silence, one experiences truth as not knowing any 'thing' about oneself. And that is all there is to know.