Absolute Truth is Not Knowing Any 'Thing'

Every piece of information that exists, throughout the entire panorama of thoughts, sensations and sense perceptions existent - past, current and future - is composed of a dualistic dynamic. Examples of this are ubiquitous, for all the information in existence is composed of this dynamic. Take 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 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'. This is the basic structure of duality; 'this' implies 'that'.

This same structure and dynamic goes for non-conceptual phenomena like sensations and perceptions. Both of these phenomena 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 exist and 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 rendered.

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

What in our direct experience can we evidentially verify to be prior to creation and duality?

And who or what has access to that which is present prior to creation and duality?

Surely if we're accessing a timeless, non-dual Reality, there can be no temporality intrinsic to our experience of it (therefore it must be ever-present), and there can be no duality between our Self and that Reality, for its very nature is non-dual. What then, in our experience, is ever-present and non-dual? That is, what Presence is always here and is no distance from itself, not separate from itself, not bound in a subject-object relationship with itself?

Our Self, Consciousness, is the only available candidate, for it is ever-presently Conscious of itself and indivisibly 'one with' itself. In the precision of truth, to articulate more clearly, Consciousness is not really 'one with' itself, rather it is itself. There are not two of itself to become one. Consciousness is not in a relationship with itself. It is itself.

As Consciousness we have direct, ever-present, non-dual access to our Self, to the only timeless, non-dual Reality of existence.

Prior to the entire arising of information - and by implication, prior to the arising of the first glimmer of time and duality - the Reality of 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 substantial 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. In this essence there is just pure Consciousness conscious of its non-objective nature, without knowing it as 'non-objective'.

As such, Consciousness knows the truth of its unlimited Oneness without knowing it conceptually, sensationally or perceptually. It knows it by simply being it.

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, for it is the Substance of all.