Who You Are? Notes of Spiritual journey

YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS

·     You are not your thoughts.

·     You are not your mind.

·     Thoughts and mind are both names of the same thing.

·     You are one which contains mind/thought.

·     You are being in which thoughts and emotions live.

·     You are awareness or consciousness in which all experiences live and are manifested.

·     Notice that awareness never leaves you because you are that awareness. Thoughts are there and go but you remain there which knows thoughts like knowing all other experiences i.e. sense perception, feelings, emotions, etc.

·     Think about the nature of that awareness, which is borderless, timeless, no objective quality at all, ever-present, and aware of itself.

·     You are present between two thoughts. Even you remain there when any thoughts come as you notice them. You are that noticing who notices that thought. Give it whatever name which is present all the time even when you are in deep sleep. You remember a time before sleep and a time after awakening. In between these two events/thought awareness lives. Awareness does not live in time; it has no duration. Duration of that sleep is the name given by the mind which lives in time.

·     Thought should not be valued too much. This is just like monkey living on this branch of a tree and jump to another branch next second. Thoughts give you the illusion of a separate self, which will never be found when investigated. People attach themselves deeply to that separate self and earn a lot of suffering. Our liberation from suffering depends on how soon we realize the illusory character of our own self which lives only in thoughts.