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This is what I needed - GentleReckoning - 07-22-2013 You have no idea who you are. Look at everything in your life. Look at your past. Look at where you are now. Now realize: You have no idea who you are. (As you realize who you are, you will also realize that knowing who you are does not affect your 'being', so quiet you!) RE: This is what I needed - Adonai One - 07-22-2013 One who is nothing can only be everything. RE: This is what I needed - Unbound - 07-22-2013 Who is who? What is what? I don't need to be nothing or everything to be just what I am. RE: This is what I needed - AnthroHeart - 07-22-2013 On the other side of the veil I am a god. I don't forget that everyone else is too. Oh I do miss the godly bliss. RE: This is what I needed - Charles - 07-25-2013 I think I know what I am, and who I am is what I am. RE: This is what I needed - Plenum - 07-25-2013 the realization that one knows nothing is the start of wisdom. once you can accept this, the learning can truly begin. ie you have to be totally open to restructuring and re-examining every belief pattern, every thought that you have every had in this incarnation. If you still have some beliefs you wish to 'defend', you will be stuck in the past, instead of living in the spontaneous moment. holding (clutching/approving) is truly what ties us to the past. - - the question of identity ties back to the 'original face' of zen: "When you're not thinking of anything good and anything bad, at that moment, what is your original face?" "Cease practice based On intellectual understanding, Pursuing words and Following after speech. Learn the backward Step that turns Your light inward To illuminate within. Body and mind of themselves Will drop away And your original face will be manifest. — Dogen"