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I am or I am?

  • “I am” as two words in the thinking-mind is the root of unhappiness and all the mess in the world.
  • “I am” as the Presence of Awareness is the gift of Life, our effortless birthright.

How to detect/discern what I am?

How to “get” from being identified as a conceptual “me” – a separate body-mind – to the direct experience of the gift of Life – I am that, living as this?

Relaxing is very important, artfully mixed with some fresh/timeless words of wisdom.

Please don’t just rush over those simple words, but read them again, maybe several times; give them some inner space.

What we are seeking, what we are longing for is always present, we just tend to overlook the significance of our ordinary Awareness. We are mesmerized by the content of experiences, and overlook the one aware of all those fleeting appearances.

Thinking allowed, thinking aloud:
“Truth is an activity in our own consciousness” (Joel Goldsmith).

Do a little self-directed thinking, without sinking into a rabbit hole.
Experience the difference between knowledge questions and freedom questions!

Alone it is almost impossible to detect the trickster in our head, the “me” that prefers the familiarity of suffering/separation over the seeming uncertainty of Life/Love.

Peace,
Holger@Thinkyness.com


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I am or I am?

Please don’t just rush over those simple words, but read them again, maybe several times. What we are seeking, what we are longing for is always present, we just tend to overlook the significance of our ordinary Awareness; we are mesmerized but the content of experiences, and overlook the one aware of those appearances.

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4 responses to “I am or I am?”

  1. LORRI A HANSON Avatar
    LORRI A HANSON

    There is peace in just mentally saying I am and allowing just a moment of rest in our day.
    May we all rest as often as we can.

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  2. Magdi Badawy Avatar
    Magdi Badawy

    I am is unencumbered, direct, crystalline (as in crystal clear) and joyful.
    I am somebody is convoluted, complex, complicated and painful.
    No need to complicate I am with I am somebody.
    What for?
    The simplicity of being.

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  3. Yuta Avatar
    Yuta

    Hi Holger. Thanks for sharing your website and article during the meeting.

    Coincidentally, I have been recently contemplating the phrase, “I am that”, “I am that I am”, and others that were pointed out by John Wheeler in this article. https://johnwheelernonduality.wordpress.com/pointers/ .

    And after reading your quick notes, I just researched where “I am that” actually comes from, and it is interesting.

    Looking at the “Four great verses of the Vedas” (or the Mahāvākyas [ महावाक्यानि ] of the Upanishad [ उपनिषद् ]), the four verses are as follows:

    That (brahma) you are -> (tat tvam asi [ तत् त्वम् असि ])

    I am that (brahma) -> (aham brahmasmi [ अहं ब्रह्मास्मि) ])

    This soul (aatma) is brahma -> (ayam aatma brahma [ अयम् आत्मा ब्रह्म ])

    That consciousness/wisdom/intelligence (prajña) is brahma -> (prajnanam brahma [ प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्म ])

    In which the second verse, “aham brahmasmi”, “I am that” is at the center of advaita vedānta, non-duality.
    Even the word, advaita is a great one too, where “a” means “not”, and “dvaita” means “dual” -> there is no duality between aatma (soul) and brahma (ultimate reality in the universe), and no duality between subject and object.

    And perhaps in this place of recognizing the non-separation between aatma and brahma, is where one can find rest, as you pointed out, “I am that, living as this”.

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    1. Holger Hubbs Avatar
      Holger Hubbs

      Beautiful!
      “I am that, living as this”.

      Less is more?
      I still feel the wish to be able to use common and practical words to debunk unhappiness on a broad scale.
      https://www.basicwisdoms.com

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