Is this a case of mistaken identity?

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10-22-08 – Post

Is this a case of mistaken identity?

 

To whom is everything coming and going, appearing and disappearing,

arising and passing away? Is there still identification with the

untrue thought, the erroneous concept, the wrong idea, the false

assumption, the fallacious, invalid, misleading, deceiving, delusory

belief, the fictitious story, the running commentary, the memory, the

fantasy, the, imaginary, fictional, illusory, empty, unreal image of

being a separate independent I me entity, individual, person with the

power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain,

grasp, want, need, require, desire, own, do, be or become something,

anything, as who I am, as what I am? Is this a case of mistaken

identity?

 

Who is aware of everything coming and going, appearing and

disappearing, arising and passing away? To whom does everything

appear? What is actually here? What is here before, during and after

all sensations, all appearances, all transient things? What is always

here? Is my true, essential, real nature, non-dual, one without a

second, non-conceptual awareness always here? Is what I already and

always am, before, during and after all thoughts, words, labels,

names, symbols, translations in language, concepts, ideas,

assumptions, beliefs, stories, commentary, memories, fantasies,

images, sensations, appearances, transient things? Is my true,

essential, real identity, non-dual, one without a second, non-

conceptual awareness?

 

Does the investigation, exploration, inquiry, questioning,

challenging, seeking, examining, close looking, deep looking into

this apparent separate independent I me entity, individual, person,

reveal, expose, prove that there is no one the I me refers to, but

only the awareness that the I me thought is appearing within? As

awareness, am I here before, during and after all thoughts, words,

labels, names, symbols, translations in language, concepts, ideas,

assumptions, beliefs, stories, commentary, memories, fantasies,

images, imagination, sensations, appearances, transient things? Am I

that which is before, during and after all sensations, all

appearances, all transient things?

 

Am I the clear opening, the cognizing emptiness, the wide open space,

the aware no-thing-ness, the spaciousness, the formless, yet

potentiality and capacity for all forms, the absolute, actual, real,

true, non-dual, one without a second being awareness, existence

awareness, presence awareness, non-conceptual, undeniable, space-like

awareness?