Moreover, to really understand who you really are, you have to learn to meditate. You do not have to call it meditation, it can have other names. What I mean by meditation is a state of consciousness in which you have serenity, bright inner perception, clarity of vision inside, and a lack of conflict, no tension, no tension in the body, no tension in the heart, no tension in the mind, but perceptive awareness, awake, receptive. In that state you can access and experience who you really are.

In that state you can experience that you are not thought. Thought happens. Thought also can stop happening.

You are not emotion. Emotions arise and they pass away yet you are still there perceiving.

In the body, sensations arise and pass away. You can even abandon the body and still perceive that you are not the body.

That experience can only be had through meditation. Through that experience you learn. “I am not the body. I am not emotion. I am not thought. I am perception.” That is cognizant knowledge. When that can be established and maintained, you can acquire liberation.

So to establish that, you have to study yourself here and now; learn to see the distinction between perceiver and perceived. In learning to see, to experience, to know that you can perceive without the body. You can perceive without emotion. You can perceive without thought, thus you are beyond all three. You are not the three brains, you are something else. That begins to open real knowledge. That requires that you are here and now.