Beyond Experiencing

By Adam J. Pearson

Prior to experience,

Experiencing,

And experiencer–

We are That.

 

Experience and experiencer

Appear in the play of manifestation.

And experiencing

Is the dreaming of consciousness

Beyond which,

Even experiencing gives way

To silence and not-knowing.

 

That, all words fail to reach,

A pathless land none can traverse,

The root of all lands–

There, all concepts dissipate

Like smoke in the wind,

And even this poem never was.

 

Knowing can never touch

Our deepest nature–

Which is beyond getting and losing,

Becoming and unbecoming,

And yet ever-suffusing all.

 

Nor is it ever experienced,

And yet there is nothing else,

For everything

Is this nothing!

 

To be nothing,

Simply to be,

Is the end and the beginning

Of the circle of Zen,

The heart of the Way.

 

The true nature of all Buddhas

Never becomes a known object

To the mirage of an assumed knower,

Beyond known and knower,

Beyond the activity of knowing–

Beyond, beyond, beyond!

 

At the root of all,

Immanent in all,

And transcendent of all

Lies the Open Secret,

Prior to consciousness,

Prior even to I Am–

Yet, always available,

Here and now,

What’s seeing these words is it!

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Part of a series on Nonduality:

Movements of the Immovable

One Step is One Too Many: Waking Up as Stripping Away

Beauty, Wonder, and the Invitation Home

The Heart of the Way: Not One, Nor Two

Everything You Experience “Now” is Remembered: Neuroscience and Nonduality

Willing the Way: Wanting What’s Happening

We Were Never Broken: Beyond the Sense of Lack, Incompleteness, and Deficiency

Emptiness and Radical Negation: Shifts in and Beyond the Story of “Me”

One Step Is One Too Many: Waking Up As Stripping Away

The Ultimate Surrender

Does “Living in Bliss” Mean We Feel Like We’re Having a Constant Orgasm?: Ananda and Equanimity

Silence Sounds

The Nondual Love of Rumi

Practical Nonduality Exercise: Consciousness Is Appearing As …

true meditation

The Welcomeness Of Now

Trust Doubt: Doubt on the Way of Nonduality

Beyond “I Am”

Remember To Be Unhappy!: The Unnecessary Root of Human Misery

The Remembered “Me”: Why Presence Implies “Your” Absence

The Vibrancy of Life and the Deadness of the “Story of Me”

The Futility of Sandcastling

The Difference Between Seeing A Thought or Emotion and Looking From It

Emptiness in Emptiness

Thoughts That Never Were

Haikus While Walking in the Rain

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