Who am I? Or to you, of course vastly more important: Who are you? This simple question has dwelled at the heart of truthseeking humans since time beginning. What would be your response to this most perennial of the perennial questions? Probe deep enough while posing this question to any number of people and you are likely to receive a range of answers as varied as the number of people asked. However, all the answers will probably share a common denominator. Nearly all of us see ourselves as some sort of entity living within the wider boundaries of the moment. How we choose to describe that entity will differ wildly. Some will say that they are their body - others may claim to be some kind of spiritual being. The vast majority of us however, believe ourselves to ultimately exist as some kind of entity existing within the wider scope of the moment.
The purpose of this blog is to propose an altogether different and much simpler approach to the who-am-I conundrum. For a good many years I took a long, hard look at this reality we live in, trying to decipher it’s nature. What made my seeking so frustrating, is what makes every seeker’s life frustrating, and it can be found right there in the middle of the previous sentence. More specifically in the words: “…this reality we live in”. This basic assumption is so deeply ingrained in all of us that it took me much blood, sweat and tears to move beyond it. The answer I was looking for was found in the realization that ultimately you and I are neither material nor spiritual entities existing in this reality or moment at all, but that our true identity rather lie as the moment and not in it.
In or as, the difference between these two wordlings may seem insignificant, but I believe that it holds the very key to the most perennial of the perennial questions.
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