Have you have seen your face before your parents were born?

Question

This is taken from a zen koan, something that one keeps near until the answer bursts forth.
This way the real Buddha is seen, birthless and deathless, your own true self.
Coyotes sometimes wonder how many humans have seen their true face. ~ : )

Oops, forget the second have.

No, your right, that's not what
I'm asking for, it is before form, although form enlightens it.

Fred V: Yes brother it can be seen.

Answer 1

Probably most of us have - if we had a mirror in that incarnation a couple of times ago.
But that's not what you ask for - is it?

Answer 2

As Krishna said to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita "There never was a time when you or I did not exist." As a Pantheist, I myself am one form or manifestation that the Supreme Reality that is Nature-God, and you and everybody else and everything else are also manifestations or reflections of that single reality.

But as to what, if any form, I took prior to my parents existence and conceiving me, I know not, nor do I care to know as it is totally unimportant. Only the present concerns me. I, like a true sage, do not worry overmuch about the past, which is dead, or have anxieties as to the future which is nothing but a Quantum Time-Stream. I came from the Source[Natura], upon death I return to the Source[Natura]. You might say my program gets uploaded into the Master Computer. What happens after that? Don't know. Will have to wait. Have I ever seen my true face? To know my true face, would be to know in totality the true face of the ONE, to know the ultimate reality. That I do not know. No lesser manifestation can know in totality the WHOLE. No one can see this FACE with physical eyes. Can one comprehend the entire cosmos out of the aperture of his telescope? Impossible. Likewise, it is impossible for the part to comprehend the whole or grasp it in totality. Only the ONE knows itself. We know it not.

What I write here might sound like mystical mumbo-jumbo, but is actually a direct consequence of Mathematical-Philosophical theories and Quantum Mechanics. Dualism as a philosophy has always fallen flat on its face. There never has, nor ever could be the need to separate the Unity of God/Nature and Body/Soul(spirit). To separate that which is ONE and make it TWO or more is the fallacy to end all fallacies.

Answer 3

I have often imagined, what if it was the face of my mother's mother who died when my mother was five and left two little girl orphaned? Anything is possible if you truly believe it to be so. It matters only that I believe in ME and you too! Bring your piece of the puzzle, the mystery to the mountains and taken your chosen place among the stars and around my campfire where all will be revealed. I am completing the mystery of the cosmos. You have seen the pieces falling into place one at a time but it shall not be completed without you. BELIEVE!

Answer 4

Of course, I saw it when I was out shopping for some parents to give birth to me.

Answer 5

does it look like a flying spaghetti monster?

Answer 6

I have! It is called ancestry, and genetics! I look like my great, great grandmother!