In yesterday's blog post, we raised several questions. The purpose for the quest being to find where is the 'I' that we identify with? Does it even exist? Is it a concept? Is it limited to our physical presence? Or, is it the mind with which we identify ourselves with? Or... or - is it something totally different?
Many philosophers have tried to answer this question. Many ascetics, yogis and wise people have tried to discover the answer to this by looking within. Is the 'I' difficult to definitively point out? Am I someone (this, that or something else) that cannot be described with certainty? Is 'I' a story? The answer to all three questions is 'NO'. At the same time, we cannot see for ourselves or experience the answer and be in a dilemma until we are involved within our own mind, within the prison of our own stories that we believe to be a reality.
To see (or rather experience) the absolute, the 'I' as we understand needs to dissolve. The 'I' that we commonly use to refer ourselves with is fluid and we constantly expand or contract it - depending on the situation. As seen in yesterday's post, the 'I' can be referred to one's own body or identified with an entire nation.
The reason we embrace this fluidity (even if it is unconsciously) is to make ourselves boundless. However, our physical boundary becomes a major barrier in experiencing the true nature of the 'I' as the physical boundary is confined with the (physical) sensory perceptions of touch, taste, hearing, sight and smell. But then if we try to experience the world through the other senses - the sense of time, space, union or oneness, memory and being, the paradigm of 'I' alters.
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