August 19, 2026
In contemplation
Who am I?
This is one of the great existential questions. Mystics and philosophers have struggled with it for centuries. Let us contemplate some of their teachings.
Day 54
You are discrete awareness in the sea of awareness that is consciousness. As awareness, you witness mind and body.
The mind supports the me of the body. It gives it reality within illusion. It helps you believe that the body is you and that it is real. You say, I am this, I am that, when in truth you are the emptiness that is nowhere that is consciousness.
The me of the body and its mind do not last. Its beliefs do not last. This and that do not last. All of existence is transitory. Whereas you are eternal.
When witnessing mind and body, you are aware of your true nature. Mind and body are states of separation in consciousness. You are the expressing of separation as existence. You are the energy of existence. You are the vibration of life.
Energy is movement. You are movement in spacetime, the changing of this to that and here to there. You are the timeless nothingness where there is no birth, no death, no change. You are knowledge and the knower. You are the whole of the all. There is no other.
In separation, you experience existence in the moment. Memory, imagination, beginnings, and endings all occur now. Appearances happen now. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow happen now. There is nothing outside of the moment in the illusion of separation.
When things appear to be real, they appear so now. Appearances are states of mind. No state of mind can be more real than the mind itself. Is the mind real? No. Like all of existence it is illusion. Transitory states of illusion cannot be real. What appears in mind is not real.
Live in the moment. See the past for what it is. A series of experiences that you react to and judge as if they were real. They are real to the me of the body and can cause great happiness or sorrow. But these are interpretations. They are your attitudes toward events derived from experience.
You have the power to choose how you see what happens moment to moment. You can see with eyes of ignorance and fear or with eyes of wisdom and joy. Choose wisdom and you negate ignorance. Without ignorance there is no fear. Without fear, you bring joy to the world.
Get out of your mind and follow the way of the path. Step out of the illusion of mind and body. There is a cloud of unknowing that absorbs light and leaves you in darkness as the me of the body. You have forgotten your true nature. You do not remember the light. You accept pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow as real. You do not see beyond your own existence.
Knowledge awakens within. From within, the witness observes and knows without judgment and hope. Attachments fall away. Wisdom reveals itself. Wisdom has never forgotten that you are consciousness expressing separation as existence. You are the energy of existence. You are love without fear. You are joy.
