Are we, or are we not?

The purpose of this post - stated as clearly as possible - is to encourage your own personal investigation into the possibility that the reality that we perceive through our senses; the reality that we've learned to interpret through conditioning and acquired belief, may not be the complete story.

If someone asks: "Who are you?" Do we answer by giving our name, and not consider the deeper meaning of the question? Or are we driven, as some of us, to lie awake at night looking for the "ME" that really IS?

Are we just a bundle of nerve endings that interact with one another within an individual body?

Are we isolated beings - separate from every other person, animal or object in the universe?

Or, as some have declared, are we the universe as wholeness experiencing itself as separateness? 

When it comes to the big questions, many of us have tried to find answers through organizations and individuals who claim authority - and who claim to be able to offer a path to liberation, or enlightenment, or eternal peace, or whatever is the name of the state of complete freedom from the fear behind the questions and uncertainty of life.

I have been a so-called seeker for literally most of my life. And it has been my experience that it is very tempting to "surrender" to an authority outside ourselves. But, it has also been my experience that with deeper analysis, this has been a decision made from fear; the avoidance of the possibility that there is no authority outside myself that can offer a path to perfection. 

I realized a few years ago that the path to perfection is a game that the mind conjures in its desire to prolong its separation from wholeness. It is not something that can be found - for it is already the case. The liberation that we seek - the sense of fulfillment that we seek; the resolution to the pain of separation from what we appear to lack, is nowhere but right here and right now.  

As someone has wisely communicated - wholeness already exists as wholeness - you cannot creep up on wholeness. Therefore there is no path to tread, no process, for there to be a process, a path to liberation, liberation would have to exist someplace else as part of wholeness. Wholeness can not be broken apart - therefore the wholeness we seek must already be the case.

So, I ask you most deeply: WHO ARE YOU? And HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE?

Think before you answer….