Exactly - there is no real you (doer)...
Sitting on train tapping things...
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On 18 Jun 2010, at 09:29, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote:
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Welcome Enlightenment Guy,
Very pleased to meet you.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, always a pleasure.
My take on this is simple.
You are exactly what you think you are in each and every moment.
Because you can only exist in this momentary real time circumstance,
the past and future become irrelevant.
To answer the question “who am I” we can only consider this
instant. This present moment is our only circumstance of existence.
If you consider what are you right now, in this instant. That must
be your only true answer.
The whole infinity verses absolute, albeit interesting, will-not
answer your question.
Listen to your now, all of it. That is what you are.
Your now is whole. The whole you.
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On Jun 17, 6:26 pm, jp EnlightenmentGuy <[email protected]>
wrote:
I have heard many spiritual teachers just dismissively say things
like,
"You can't be anything that changes, right? You are not the body, or
mind, or memories, or personality or whatever."
Really?
I'll bet 99.99%++ of all humans who have ever existed would agree
with
what is written below. Can you say, clearly, why this is not
accurate??
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Who or what am I? I am a body, with certain attributes and abilities
(physical and mental), born to parents, exposed to things in the
environment, having had experiences I have collected memories, and
developed beliefs and a personality (with all its many sub-
attributes).
If I had been born to different parents (or adopted as an infant), or
born at a different time, or born into a different body, or born in a
different place, or in a different culture/society, then I would in
fact be a different person.
That is what a "person" is -- a unique, ever-changing, body/mind/
personality, that is born, lives for a while, then dies.
That is what I am.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
How clear can you be in pointing out how, exactly, this is
inaccurate?
Thank you!
