There are many things that I can doubt, but I cannot doubt my own consciousness in this moment. My consciousness IS, and even if I tried to doubt it, it would be my consciousness doing the doubting. I can imagine that my senses are being presented with a fake reality – say, a completely virtual or digital reality, which looks real but is merely a series of extremely realistic images. But even then, I cannot doubt the consciousness that is doing the watching.
The very undeniability of my present awareness, the undeniability of my consciousness, immediately delivers to me a certainty of existence in this moment, a certainty of Being in the now-ness of this moment. I cannot doubt consciousness and Being in this moment, for it is the ground of all knowing, all seeing, all existing…
So I can doubt the objects of my consciousness, but I can never believably doubt the doubter, never really doubt the Witness of the entire display.
Who am I?
Anything I can see, touch, feel or think cannot be who I am.
Anything I can witness, anything I am aware of, is an object – it cannot be who I am.
I am aware of my feelings, so I am not my feelings.
I am aware of my thoughts, so I am not my thoughts.
Clouds float by in the sky, thoughts float by in the mind, feelings float by in the body – and I am none of these because I am aware of them all.
I can doubt that clouds exist, I can doubt that feelings exist, I can doubt that objects of thought exist – but I cannot doubt that the Witness exists in this moment, because the Witness would still be there to witness the doubt.
I am not objects in nature, not feelings in the body, not thoughts in the mind, for I can Witness them all.
Something in you is aware of all these things. So tell me:
What is it in you that is conscious of everything?
