I am so so. Be content with that. Do you still ask 'who am I' ? May be one is asking this question as a passing interest! Just satisfied with the answers given by another. Do we really have the energy to delve deep into this question and come upon something original and authentic? What profit is there? Will it give me any status, a recognition in the society? Or on the contrary will it deprive me of my social status? Am I going to be a failure or some sort of a success?
In love all these questions are simply absent. It is still thought/time that is posing all these questions. To go beyond them needs a different kind of energy, a gathering of energy in which not a particle of it is wasted. 'Who am I' is a fundamental and radical question. None of the previous answers are going to satisfy me. A completely different approach, more importantly a radical new way of (daily) living is necessary to observe the very magnitude of this question. Is this my own question or this belongs to the whole of humanity? Is it ever possible for the limited knowledge, memory, intellect, desire to break through this labyrinth of darkness and inertia to see something that has never been seen by the eyes of humanity? Again what is the motive/point of all this? Please leave me alone! At least for the moment I am so and so. Basta.
Thank You for sharing this. I read few times and feel what you tried to say is clear, but I may be wrong.
The question ‘who am I’ is not a question at all.
For if it was, there was an answer to it, ‘I’m x’, ‘I’m y’.
This question is an eye to the unknown. An infinite inquiry of the self to itself, without itself.
One can’t “ask” it, and have any motive/expectation. Not even pure curiosity.
As to the last part of your comment “to be left alone”, is indeed beautiful. But only you can leave your self alone, and stop being associated with it.
Since I can remember there was life and at the same time there was the "label life". "Label life" meaning "you are intelligent" "you are good at sports" "you are bad at mathematics" "you irritate fast", all this labeling that came from my fathers, teachers, family, friends, etc. I think "the label me" began to have a distance with was actually going on in the "minute to minute". The I conclusions could certainly contradict things that happened, for example, playing bad in a sport game or making a good math exam. The label me identifing with sentences and conclusions. This process can be so subtle... one can "buy" any conclusion and see life with this new conclusion, this new "glasses on"
Anyway, I still remember very vividly when "out of nowhere" when I was at school, at the age of 8, a question came and it was something like, "why there are things and instead of that, there is nothing?"
Of course, there was no answer and still there isn't.
Is it possible to start being "confortable" in the unknown, in the "unlabel" in this "being lost"?
For me, the essence is questioning and not the question. If you ask “what is the sky” it has same observation space as any other questions that leads to emptiness
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Thank you so much. I could write my story and It is the same story as yours...
I try to stay with the question: Who am I?
I'm learning.
Let the question stay without you...
Smile at it. Love it. Let it be
I can relate to each and every word you wrote here... Totally lost but I am so content in it...
How beautiful it is to allow observation to look into the unknown.
Being “lost” is a key state, for making a step not from the “bridge of the familiar past”.
The art of living is the art of ‘disassociated space and time’.
‘Disassociated’ - in the sense of being independent from the anchors of “familiarity”.
Like that jump of a young bird, stretching its wings for the first time and trusting the air to carry it.
It must be natural though. One can’t initiate it by will.
It’s when the will to hold on ends, naturally the letting go is.
True dear friend, it just happens by it self, naturally... "Unknown" 😊
I am so so. Be content with that. Do you still ask 'who am I' ? May be one is asking this question as a passing interest! Just satisfied with the answers given by another. Do we really have the energy to delve deep into this question and come upon something original and authentic? What profit is there? Will it give me any status, a recognition in the society? Or on the contrary will it deprive me of my social status? Am I going to be a failure or some sort of a success?
In love all these questions are simply absent. It is still thought/time that is posing all these questions. To go beyond them needs a different kind of energy, a gathering of energy in which not a particle of it is wasted. 'Who am I' is a fundamental and radical question. None of the previous answers are going to satisfy me. A completely different approach, more importantly a radical new way of (daily) living is necessary to observe the very magnitude of this question. Is this my own question or this belongs to the whole of humanity? Is it ever possible for the limited knowledge, memory, intellect, desire to break through this labyrinth of darkness and inertia to see something that has never been seen by the eyes of humanity? Again what is the motive/point of all this? Please leave me alone! At least for the moment I am so and so. Basta.
Thank You for sharing this. I read few times and feel what you tried to say is clear, but I may be wrong.
The question ‘who am I’ is not a question at all.
For if it was, there was an answer to it, ‘I’m x’, ‘I’m y’.
This question is an eye to the unknown. An infinite inquiry of the self to itself, without itself.
One can’t “ask” it, and have any motive/expectation. Not even pure curiosity.
As to the last part of your comment “to be left alone”, is indeed beautiful. But only you can leave your self alone, and stop being associated with it.
Be well, and thanks again for sharing.
Amihai
Since I can remember there was life and at the same time there was the "label life". "Label life" meaning "you are intelligent" "you are good at sports" "you are bad at mathematics" "you irritate fast", all this labeling that came from my fathers, teachers, family, friends, etc. I think "the label me" began to have a distance with was actually going on in the "minute to minute". The I conclusions could certainly contradict things that happened, for example, playing bad in a sport game or making a good math exam. The label me identifing with sentences and conclusions. This process can be so subtle... one can "buy" any conclusion and see life with this new conclusion, this new "glasses on"
Anyway, I still remember very vividly when "out of nowhere" when I was at school, at the age of 8, a question came and it was something like, "why there are things and instead of that, there is nothing?"
Of course, there was no answer and still there isn't.
Is it possible to start being "confortable" in the unknown, in the "unlabel" in this "being lost"?
Most questions originate from the I, the me, the ego,
That wants to eat more knowledge and grows in that
But here and there, a question as if dawns, in the space, by the space and it is calling for the space
Such question is the key to inner freedom as long as it is not converted to a “knowledge question”
Thanks Sir!
In regard of the "Who am I"? question, don't know why but it resonates better for me, "What am I"?
With who am I, the "pop ups of the mind" suggest answers, with "what I am" i'm totally lost 🤣
For me, the essence is questioning and not the question. If you ask “what is the sky” it has same observation space as any other questions that leads to emptiness
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