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Hearing, Seeing,
and What Is Already Knowing
and What Is Already Knowing
Hearing and seeing are continuously occurring.
Sounds arise. Images arise.
Sensations, thoughts, and impressions appear.
None of this requires effort.
Experience is already happening.
Attention is often drawn toward what is seen or heard,
as if awareness must move toward experience in order to know it.
Yet with gentle noticing, it can be seen that knowing does not depend on seeing. There is awareness even when no particular image is present.
Yet with gentle noticing, it can be seen that knowing does not depend on seeing. There is awareness even when no particular image is present.
Seeing happens with knowing —
not before it,
not apart from it.
Hearing does not need to be produced or sustained. Sounds appear and are known without intervention.
Hearing does not need to be produced or sustained. Sounds appear and are known without intervention.
Seeing is made of awareness.
Hearing is made of awareness.
The sense of a separate self
is also made of awareness.
Hearing is made of awareness.
The sense of a separate self
is also made of awareness.
When attention contracts,
experience may seem divided —
inside and outside,
subject and object,
self and world.
When that contraction softens, it becomes less clear where one ends and another begins.
When that contraction softens, it becomes less clear where one ends and another begins.
These reflections are not conclusions —
but an opening.
An invitation to notice what has been present all along.
An invitation to notice what has been present all along.
Experience is already happening.
Knowing is already here.
Knowing is already here.
