I Am That I Am

 Who you are is not who you can become. It’s who you are, and who you are has to be who you are now, as much as it will ever be at any point in time. Now, who you might become can of course change over time and grow, expand or shrink or contract, but the ultimate foundation of our being is already and always is self-transcending. If there is an egoistic self, it exists within who we are. (Adyashanti)

 

What a powerful insight, I am who I am, always have and always will be. We are the presence behind a canvas that an imagined entity may temporarily fill with pain bodies, aspirations, desires, fears, but behind all that our presence is. 

 

Adyashanti highlights in this quote the difference between spirituality 1.0 and spirituality 2.0. The former speaks to the feeling that who we perceive we are may become more spiritual, more driven, less conflicted, and so forth. The latter speaks to the fact that we are That, and the self-identity, the doer, thinker, the doubter and the master are just images on the ever present, limitless canvas that is no-thing.

 

Paul DeFetta posted the insight of the “ego-ing” that perfectly fits in here:

“It is always helpful, I have found, to remember that “ego” is not a thing or an entity, but a mode of consciousness—rather like dreaming is not a thing or an entity, but a mode of consciousness. “Ego-ing” is just a denser process than dreaming.” We are who we are. We are in essence no-thing. Be mindful of “ego-ing” and “I Am That I Am” shines through.

 

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