There is only Experiencing

What is totally awesome is that we never encounter anything independent of experiencing. Just let that sink in for a moment. That understanding is infinite.

All there is to the entirety of Reality is experiencing. These words gathered together on the screen, our eyes beholding these words, the sun peeping through the curtains, the light of awareness, trillions of twirling galaxies accelerating over the horizon of telescopic observation, the texture of water, antelope playing aimlessly on the savanna, the sound of rain tickling the window glass, a psychedelic trip, passionate feelings for chocolate, a vision of a deity, our dear friends laughing over a joke; all of these are experiences to us.

Name anything, past, present, future or hypothetical, and notice that experiencing is all that is really there, or could ever be there. The totality of all things are pervaded by and made of the experiencing of them. However, there is no ‘them’ or ‘it’ separate from experiencing. There is only experiencing.

The only substance we really touch is experiencing. 'Matter', this substance we imagine exists independently of experiencing, can never be evidentially verified, for the only means we have to verify its existence is experiencing. To say, “aha we have proven the existence of matter,” only proves the Reality of experiencing. ‘Matter’ is a concept that we superimpose upon the only substance that is present in Reality; experiencing.

Experiencing is a substance, the substance, the only substance, that is being experienced right now. Try to find another substance. You cannot.

Right now, the essential nature of this substance is immediately available for direct recognition. And who could possibly recognise the essential substance of experiencing? It would have to be experiencing itself. For all there is, is experiencing. And we are that!

By nature, experiencing experiences, and so, by itself, experiencing is able to experience itself, through itself alone. It does not need anything other than itself to experience itself. Nor does it need to modulate itself in the form of a particular thought, sensation or perception in order to experience itself. Experiencing experiences itself prior to all the temporary forms of experience that arise.

Experiencing never is-not. It is here, now, as the unchanging substance of everything that appears to change.

Check it out. Experiencing is, right?

That ‘yes’ that silently announces itself within yourself is the experience of the essential substance of experience. And who is it that is experiencing this? Well, it would have to be that which is, that which experiences, right? That which is not, that which is not experiencing, does not have the capacity to experience experiencing.

Only that which is can experience that which is. Experience is the only one that can experience itself. So, then, who are you?

There is only one possibility. There is only one substance right here, right now, and that is experiencing.

Experiencing is what we are. We are not a body or mind made of matter. We cannot be. For ‘matter’ is, by definition, stuff that exists independently of experiencing. There is no stuff that exists independently of experiencing. We cannot be made of something that does not exist. The body, mind and cosmos are all appearances of the only real substance that is here; experiencing. That’s our experience after all!

This one substance of experiencing is all that is. It is what we refer to when we say ‘I’. The ’we’ are this ‘I’ that experiences itself, as all that is.

Now, allow this experiential understanding to sink deeply into itself within you and watch how living unfolds spontaneously in a refreshingly harmonious light.

Disharmony is not possible for that which is indivisibly one. And that is you, the substance of experiencing; Reality itself.