Who Am I? " I remember a vivid dream that I had when I began my spiritual quest more than 10 years ago... in which enlightened masters who were watching and interrogating me... encircled me. I will never forget their question.. "In the spiritual world I am a cosmic being...and in the material world I am called Brando...etc." I didn't know better then... and as a "cosmic" being or as "Brando" I still gave a limited view of who I thought I was... Because whatever I "Think" I am, can only be a self-image a projection of a thought that I have and identify with... and yet we know that thoughts change, ideas about ourselves change also, from day to day and from moment to moment... The opinions and the way that others perceive us, not only change, but are often different and sometimes even conflicting, yet they do send us images about how others perceive us... and these perceptions about who other people think we are, do influence our own perception of ourselves... Our moods, thoughts emotions change with our experiences, anger, vulnerability, fear, bereavement, and the loss of a job can make us change the image that we have of ourselves... So, we can understand that we cannot rely on these fleeting and changing images that we have of ourselves...And to know what we are not, we must WATCH ourselves thoroughly...carefully rejecting all that does not bring us back to the basic experience of "I AM"...
I was looking at myself as an "object" and therefore "when here in the spiritual world I am a Cosmic being - "and when I am in the physical world I am called Brando" Because the answers came from mental thoughts, ideas and images that I had about myself... thus, without knowing it I saw myself as an "object" ... I am this cosmic being when in the Spiritual world... and I am that person when in a physical body" Therefore, I automatically separated myself from who I AM.
To find out and learn to question yourself about who and what you really are, you should try to separate regularly and constantly the "I AM" from the "I am this or that..." the moment you add this or that, you look at yourself as an "object" and an object you certainly are NOT... and while you are questioning yourself, try to feel and experience deeply what you really are...and what it means to just BE... feel the I AM...empty of anything else... without adding I am ...this...or that... be conscious of not having images of any sub personality...You will find out that to feel EMPTY and just be the pure "I AM" will be difficult, but worth all the effort...
“ To know who and what you are you must first find who and what you are not"
