What is Being? Who are you?
To Be YourSelf, you must first Know ThySelf. To know who and what you truly are.
In order to realise the true Self, often we start by realising who we are not. We come to understand…
We cannot be the Body/form.
We are not the Mind - our thoughts and thinking processes. There is nothing original there.
We are not our feelings and emotions. They move about constantly.
We are not our identity - the name we were given, the family we belong to, the culture we grew up in.
We are not our labels - what we do, the job titles, the qualifications we attach ourselves to, our roles in society (mother/father …), our gender, age and so on.
If we go a little deeper, we may ask the famous question from the Advaita Vedanta tradition - Who am I really then when I cannot describe myself based on the above conditions?
Another version of this question is 'Where am I?’. Often, we carry this unquestioned idea that we must exist INSIDE this body somewhere. Perhaps the idea of a Soul arises. But where is the Soul? Where does it start and end and can it be located to one place?
We ‘think’ that we must surely appear INSIDE this body/form. But sitting with this question ‘Where am I?’ - can you locate exactly WHERE you start and end?
Eventually, the realisation dawns. It cannot be located to one fixed point. If it cannot be located, then it must mean it is everywhere. What’s more - if it is everywhere for this idea of ‘me’ - then it MUST be everywhere for this idea of ‘you’!! No separation. No me. No you. There is only the One.
I am Consciousness. And so are you.
I am timeless. I am ageless. And so are you.
I am the source of all that is. I am everything and nothing, all at the same time. And so are you.
I know this because I am able to see and watch everything else appear in front of this idea of who I think I am!
That’s when real life begins. It’s when the mystery of existence becomes playful.
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to Life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of Conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you ARE.”
“Don’t try to become a Buddha. Just be yourself. That is the Buddha. ”
“What you seek, is seeking you.”
“If ‘I’ cannot live with ‘myself’, there must be two of me. ”
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons ...knocking on a door, it opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside. ”
Recommended Reading/Audio:
An Invitation to Freedom. By Mooji
The Power of Now. By Eckhart Tolle
The End of Your World. By Adyashanti
Before I Am. By Mooji