Presence of Being Trancends Memory

There are two fundamentally different types of knowledge. One is direct, non-memory based knowledge; what Hameed Ali calls basic knowledge. The other is ordinary regular knowledge, entirely memory based. Memories are the building blocks of ordinary knowledge and all memories are, themselves, ordinary knowledge.

Basic direct knowledge is a unique type of focused attention. Direct Knowledge is in the moment, held in the light of Pure Awareness, which is is the intelligent capacity to know, inherent in Presence of Being. Thus, direct knowledge is the direct experience of Presence as intelligent, knowing, Awareness. Very fundamental.

Ordinary, memory based knowledge is retained so that it can be retrieved in the mind later, giving us the ability to focus our attention outside the moment. It is, by definition, outside the moment, referenced to, and networked into, the constellation of mental structures and images we hold as memory of past experience. Ordinary knowledge is attention placed on images of past events, held in the light of consciousness. As such, ordinary knowledge gives you an indirect experience of your own life ,while you are engaged in living it! In the moment,yes, but only partially of the moment. Memory of past experience superimposed on the present moment mostly obscure it.

Memory is a survival tool for carrying information forward in the mind to inform and influence the present from the past. This is a body - mind consciousness process. It has a survival advantage, and as such, is necessary and useful. It does not, however, function to give a better immediate, objective, ontologically authentic experience of reality as Presence in the moment. Quite the contrary. Memory serves to obscure experience of Presence, precisely because the memory function requires that attention focus outside the moment, while Presence , of course, is only in the present moment.

Memory is a biological mind function , fully referenced in the field of consciousness and revolving around the biological body. Ordinary knowledge is memory based and inseparable from memory. In relationship to the present moment , ordinary memory based knowledge is always indirect. Much of the experience is inferred from memory and, no matter how detailed, vivid, or significant it may seem, its main content is a preponderance of images from the past overlaying the present. Focusing attention outside the present in order to benefit from knowledge of the past results in inhabiting a present so crowded with recalled elements of past experience that past and present feel very much the same. Presence is lost because Presence is never a memory. It is never ordinary knowledge. It is untainted as a reference to the past, except as a dead image or symbol, misused and always misunderstood by the ordinary mind .

When attention is habitually focused outside the present moment you lose touch with Presence, you lose touch with reality, you lose touch with your true identity, and you lose touch with your capacities, the essential qualities of Presence of Being. Everything truly significant and meaningful resides in the present moment, inseparable from and expressed as your own
Presence of Being. Your identity, your intelligence, your capacities, and your significance are all innate to your Presence.


To believe that you remember your Presence is always a delusion. You may remember ordinary knowledge images of how Presence felt to the body, or how the mind was influenced by Presence, but it is impossible to form a memory of the ontological thusness of Presence itself. Memory and Presence are different categories of experience. The first is illusory, though convincing, useful and protective of the body - mind. The later is real. It is not a subjective experience of reality. It is, rather, an objective experience of being the Presence, knowingness, oneness, and dynamism of reality. This experience is authentic, unmistakable, solid and complete without any need to reference images or the past. Presence of Being, with all of its Essential Qualities, is real. Everything else is illusory.