Falling Into What You Are
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A reflection on how releasing resistance can lead to a direct knowing of one's true nature, beyond the familiar story of identity.
Falling Into What You Are
A reflection on how releasing resistance can lead to a direct knowing of one's true nature, beyond the familiar story of identity.
Something can happen, and will happen, when you are no longer pushing away. You fall into it. Those are just words describing something that different cultures and schools of spirituality and meditation have given many names to. There are different ways and types, but it is basically this: a falling into the present moment.
What is known in that falling
When that happens, something is known more intimately than anything else. That is what is described as the knowing of your true nature, as self-realization. It is knowing, when we say "I," what that really is, as opposed to the misinterpretation that we live with: I am this body with this mind, this past, and so on.
A gentle challenging of identity
That misinterpretation is what is being challenged, and the challenging can be more gentle or less so. It is not an opposition to the experience of being a person, of having a life. We all know this deeper truth because it is what we are, but we do not know it in our normal way of functioning. We very quickly go to a kind of self-hypnosis: "I am this."