The Break in Knowing What You Are
La ruptura en saber lo que eres
A reflection on how the sense of "I" is normally wrapped in belief, and what happens when that identification is seen through clearly enough to break.
The Break in Knowing What You Are
A reflection on how the sense of "I" is normally wrapped in belief, and what happens when that identification is seen through clearly enough to break.
When I say "I," when we say "I," we are pointing to something: that sense of subjective experiencing, that sense of being. Normally, we believe we know what that is. This subjective experiencing is wrapped into a mental understanding. For example: I am a man, I was born, I will die, and subjective experiencing emerges from this. If this body ends, so does "I."
Belief in either direction is the same problem
If I were to say the opposite, that if this body ends I do not end, that I will continue in rebirth, that I will go to heaven, that is another belief. It is the same problem.
Listening to the music of thought
Through this work, by learning to see the structure of the mind and how it operates, we can start to see something clearly. As I was saying in the metaphor of the musician, a master musician understanding: we can listen to the music of the thought process and understand that what seemed to be what I am is just thought.
When something breaks
That recognition puts us in a new place. If we see it deeply enough, something will break, and we will no longer be able to know what "I" am. That is a process that could be difficult. But after that transition, there is a freedom. There is a well-being. This is what we have been talking about.
Then there could be a phase where there is a back and forth, moving into that identification and out again, in and out.