June 28, 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 9
The course you follow is your own but not separate from all else. You are not alone. You are a unique expression of consciousness in existence. You are unique like a water molecule is unique in the ocean. You are unique as discrete awareness in the sea of awareness that is consciousness.
Witness your life in the moment. Do not interfere with its flowing. Avoid getting stranded on the river’s shoals or sucked into its eddies. They trap you in cycles of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Flow as the current. Follow your true nature to the sea.
When your mind is restless, peace seems distant. The me of the body thrashes about in pools of desire. It struggles against waves of expectations. It seeks pleasure and happiness. It suffers pain and sorrow. It regrets this and hopes for that. Stop trying to set your course alone. You do not know the way. Let the river run freely.
You block the river with a monument of ego and then question who you are. Life often is not as you wish. You have built your monument on the river’s soft shoals which shift beneath you. You sway, teeter, and fall because nothing in your life is permanent. The river keeps flowing around you as you stand immobile, wondering why you are here.
Where are the answers? They lie within. The room-within is your true nature. You are that which I AM—whole, complete, perfect, eternal. You are experiencing separation as the me of the body. You were born. You will die, but death does not destroy you. Your true nature is I AM, eternally.
As the me of the body you are not permanent. Your transitory nature is a function of existence as illusion. Permanency is an idea in mind. It has no reality. The eternal is not permanent because it does not change. It is timeless emptiness that is nowhere. It cannot be compared or described as permanent or otherwise.
Peace of mind and heart comes when you release yourself into the flow. Stop standing in the river like a stone monolith blocking its natural course. Fall into the current. Release yourself to the flowing water. Accept its course as your own. That flowing is your true nature. It knows the way to the sea. Follow it.
