Most of us are identified with being our "story" of who we are.
We say things like, "I am John or Jane. I am a ____________ (job title) and then go on to describe our physical attributes or our hobbies or interests. But these things change constantly. Are we really that changeable? I don't think so. I think there's an unchanging part of us that we fail to look at and so end up identifying with everything else (our body/appearance, our mind/thoughts, our feelings, our social status, our life situation, our relationship, etc) instead of with the true core of our being.
If we get in touch with what it feels like to be "us", I think it is really a feeling of "being" that has never changed -- like a movie screen upon which all our changing life stories "about" who we "think" we are, get projected. Yet this screen never seems to get affected.
Coming from this perspective, beyond your "story" of who you "think" you are, who are you? Who would you be if you had no mind and no body?
2006-08-21
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