Here in these following words lies an analogy which can be understood from all levels of being.
"I am" energy, yet energy is not "me" I am a function of the interaction between awareness and the experience driven. Imagine conscious realisation, the "me" in the equation, to be an anomaly that can become apparent in the mechanism of existing. The Chinese call this energy Chi. An analogue to this perhaps would be DC voltage. It is always present and moving in a direction. Think of the battery in a car. The negative leg of the battery is connected to the car by a thick metal strap. The car shell itself is ground. With the ignition switched off (no circuit) if I use a meter to take a measurement between the positive terminal of the battery and the ground, I will see voltage. The meter will register flow of energy. If I take a measurement between the negative terminal of the battery and the ground I won't see anything. The meter will register nothing. Nothing cannot be measured yet we know it is there because the battery needs to feed back into it to complete any circuit we may choose to make. Think of desire as the means of driving experience and we have something representative of the positive element, while awareness remains the place experience feeds back to yet is immeasurable. Obvious perhaps? There's more. If I put a load on the battery by say switching the car's headlights on, the voltage feeds the headlights and returns to the negative terminal to complete the circuit. Desire, feeds experience and there is an awareness of it perhaps? Simple. Not quite as simple. While there is a load on the battery, if I then take the meter and connect it between the negative terminal of the battery and ground (using it as a bridging meter) it will register a flow of energy. While nothing itself cannot be measured by itself, under the load of experience an energy flow can be measured between nothing and nothing. So desire feeds experience and there is awareness of it perhaps and this feeds a separate and measurable energy which appears between nothing and nothing. I choose to make this "me" In this analogous hypothesis I can prove my existence. There is no "real" me, yet one shows up in the face of experience. Cheers Mark
