Thread: Define yourself

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

Is that what "you" are , or "your" mind is thinking? ...or is it what the "mind" is thinking?

Such a question is really worth chewing on...

It's what my mind is thinking, i guess you can say it's what my mind "is".
I am not that, i am something else, i guess then you guys call that "i am false"? My mind is different then i am as my mind acts differently then my actions.

edit- sorry, i am not really familiar with this kind of language.

Originally Posted by LucidFlanders

It's what my mind is thinking, i guess you can say it's what my mind "is".
I am not that, i am something else, i guess then you guys call that "i am false"? My mind is different then i am as my mind acts differently then my actions.

edit- sorry, i am not really familiar with this kind of language.

No need for apologies, we all travel the same path, seeing , each at our own pace. The realizations come to us in our own time as we are ready.

I vs i

Self vs self

Writing, thinking, seeing as such helps bring and maintain focus for me as i am now.


I, Self

The mirror

Reflecting all in front of it

Never seeing itself

Always being itSelf

The Base, the Substrate

Extending ever outward

Beyond the mind

Containing the mind


i, self

The reflection in the mirror

Always seeing itself

Lost within the mind

Existant expression of Self

Capable of seeing, knowing Self

Seeing the mirror


The language you speak of is something dealing with inner sight. Seeing into yourSelf, seeing beyond the confines of the mind. Poetry and metaphor expresses such best. Though for those unable to see into themselves or are unwilling, such is, or can be, a frustration to them when used by others. Make no ,mistake though, all are well capable, but such requires letting go of ingrained ideas of who and what one is.

For me, the veil between i and I is weakening. Such has fallen briefly , for a moment , on several occasions. Each time i sit and chew on the realizations.

Mind is not what i used to take it to be.

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

For those up to the task, define yourself in the context of of the words "Me", "I", and "Mine" as you use them in reference to yourself.
Take a moment and ask yourself
Who is this I?
Who is this me ?
What is this I and this Me?
Really sit and think on this, dont just throw an answer down without really contemplating this. Sit with it for a while, even a few days, and come back and give an answer. Try and give your reasons too for how and why you answered the way you did.
Truly see it from your own intimate perspective, not just some extrapilation of some teaching. Define it as you see it personally.

The best I can come up with is that I am this consciousness that is thinking and experiencing. The me is another word for I. The only thing separating my consciousness from another is the head it's in.

Consciousness doesn't "think", it is Awareness/Pure Subjectivity.

love us

let us love
_____

i am jake

these are words

we are undefinable

I am whatever I'm aware of in the present moment, and the awareness in itself

Did I get it right?

Originally Posted by Omnius Deus

I am whatever I'm aware of in the present moment, and the awareness in itself

Did I get it right?

If you were (EDIT: Fully aware of this), the question would dissolve immediately. (Yes, it replaces all doubt).

^ Ahahahhahahah!

Originally Posted by ClouD

^ Ahahahhahahah!

Now it's my turn to ask a question. Is your expression explainable?

Hahaha, the very question is the expression.

I is used when you are the subject, me isn't. If you use me, you are basically talking about something else but including yourself.

A solitary, fluid perception of the universe, bound by matter and mater.

Originally Posted by ClouD

^ Ahahahhahahah!

ROFL!

I don't get it. You guys appear to tease me when you don't explain things.

Originally Posted by ClouD

Hahaha, the very question is the expression.

I don't understand how pointing and laughing is a question.

If "someone" united with awareness and the eternal moment I don't think there would be any "room" for questions. That's because the mind goes silent in awe.

Originally Posted by really

If "someone" united with awareness and the eternal moment I don't think there would be any "room" for questions. That's because the mind goes silent in awe.

There ya go in red

Everything is self arising

Questions arise almost at the same time the answers do

The synchronicity

Such hilarity

Such laughter

Bliss

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

There ya go in red

Everything is self arising

Questions arise almost at the same time the answers do

The synchronicity

Such hilarity

Such laughter

Bliss

You guys amaze me. While I may be able to understand the crucial elements of devotional non-duality, I have only some spiritual experience which I can't describe effectively.

Like I tried to say in "Live to die, Die to live", it's wonderful how I experience glimpses of Reality, and then I find that you and ClouD are "moving" also, as a team. But the apparent team is just the Self. I'm so grateful for you two to be together, and myself... in the middle somewhere. Destiny of Now.

Whenever looking for an I, there is an observer, a questioner, and an answerer. Who is I? There is only one univers, but it has many parts that make up a whole.