Can you cease looking for a conceptual definition to give you a sense of self? Can you cease looking to thought for an identity?
- When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone.
- When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be.
- Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
Finding who you truly are is about knowing yourself rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
- In Zen they say: “Don’t seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.”
- What does that mean? Let go of identification with you mind.
- Who you are beyond the mind then emerges by itself.
Re-source: Reflection
Every experience has three possible ingredients: sense perceptions, thoughts or mental images, and emotions.
- If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
- The ego asks, How can I make this situation fulfill my needs or how can I get to some other situation that will fulfill my needs?
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises.
craving and resource from “A New Earth” -Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by – Eckhart Tolle
