TRUTH IN YOUR FACE

What is not an “object”? What is not the “known”? What is not the “knowing” of an “object”? What is not the “knowledge” of an “object”? What is not the “knowing-subject” (or the “knowing-self” of any “known-object”? What is the “Perfect Knower”—Prior to any “known-object”, Prior to any “knowing”, Prior to any “knowledge”, and Prior to any “knowing-subject” (or “self” that “knows”)? Wherein, Wherefrom, Whereof, and (Therefore) As What does attention (itself) arise? What Is Always Already Prior to attention (itself)—even in any and every moment in which attention arises and associates itself with any and every kind of “object”? “Locate” That . Be That . Only Thus (by Being That ), Self-“Locate” That ( As Is ). That Is That . That Is It. That Is All.

Legally, I am the owner of the house. It's a stately and ornate gentleman farmer's house with plenty of room, built in 1912. The story goes that two well-to-do gents had eyes for the same dame, so they each built the nicest house they could. They both proposed to her, assuming that she'd go for the one with the best house. I first heard the story in my lawyer's office at the closing. His secretary was fully versed in my house's history. I waited anxiously to know how it turned out, whether my house won. It did. Sportingly, the other house burned down a few years later. Good story. If it was made up or amended I don't want to know. I like it just the way it is. The house is in east central Iowa, about twenty miles from Iowa City and half an hour from the Mississippi River. We're lucky that there's some nice roll to the land here, not completely flat like parts of Iowa can be. We have a few wooded acres and a dozen unwooded acres, a creek (the Min...