{"id":4041,"date":"2011-10-23T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2011-10-24T06:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:25:55","slug":"sunday-inspiration-answering-the-question-who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/10\/sunday-inspiration-answering-the-question-who-am-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunday inspiration: Answering the question “Who am I”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Examining “Who am I” is like beginning to go to the movies just to see\u00a0how the movie is made.<\/p>\n

As we first sit down in the dark theater we find that we are relating to the objects of the melodrama, the motion on the screen.\u00a0 We pay attention to the story line, which we notice is like the contents of the mind, allowing it to unfold as it will without judgment or the least interference.<\/p>\n

As we focus our attention on the process, we begin to see that frames that constitute film are like separate thoughts; then we begin to recognize the process buy which the images are produced, and it breaks our enthrallment with the story line.\u00a0 We notice that ll the activity is just a projection on a blank screen.\u00a0 That all these figures dancing before us are an illusion produced by light passing through various densities onthe film.<\/p>\n

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We see the film is like our conditioning, a repetitious imprint of images gone by.\u00a0 We see that the whole melodrama is a passing show of motion and change … We discover that all we imagined ourselves to be \u2014 all our becoming, our memory, all the contents of mind \u2014 is just old film running off.\u00a0 The projectionist has died.<\/p>\n

“Who am I?” can’t be answered.\u00a0 We cannot know the truth.\u00a0 We can only be it.\u00a0 Constantly living life in the past tense, rummaging through consciousness to decide who and what we are, the truth is obscured. The truth cannot be discovered in the contents of the mind.\u00a0 Only the untruth of false identification can be uncovered.<\/p>\n

Going beyond the false, the truth is revealed.<\/p>\n

–Stephen Levine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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