I Am defining awarness....just thoughts

The concept of  eliminating the Ego also sometimes confused by the I Am awareness is something that features heavily in spiritual awareness circles as a desirable goal.  Get rid of the ego (I Am) and  live in permanent bliss. But is this really true? Who do you know Guru or otherwise, that is not aware that they are. That do not respond by saying I Am when asked a question as to their state of being.

I tend to think that nature has provided for us in every way possible and that we have all  the necessary tools with us to reach  awareness. The I Am and the ego (which are separate manifestations of conscious awareness of being)  are no different.

To reach awareness one just need to understand what they are and their purpose in the larger scheme of being. But in essence  just being is quite enough, and exactly what is needed to become aware.

In my understanding the I Am is another word for recognition of what makes us unique to any given situation. We use I Am to define our boundaries to the world, so that we can use those to explore everything that is not included in our I Am function.

For example saying "I Am Angela" clearly defines that in order to get your attention one must call for Angela. However Angela  does not describe anything at all. It is just a sound. So really you are not Angela, the sound to get your attention is. Yet we put all our identity into that sound as if our living depended on it. When we put this into perspective we might find just how absurd it really is by stating:

"Hi I Am A Name."

We can then go on to state all the things we recognize as part of our I Am experience like, our occupation, our civil state, our age, our height, emotional state etc etc. What we find is that the only thing that is constant is our belief that we are. I Am.

So in essence I Am is  simply awareness of being in its purest form. And is endless in it's possibilities. The only true and permanent  answer to any question about who and what is I Am.

When we recognize that the I Am rather than define us and bind us is what frees us and allow us to experience anything and everything - we come to realize our true potential as beings. Welcome to awareness of being. Or being aware.

 So if the I Am is pure awareness then what is the Ego and how are they different?

Well Ego to my understanding is the control center of being. It is what wants us safe and well so that we can carry on being awareness for as long as possible. It seeks out answers to what if questions in order to understand possibilities within the boundaries of our accumulated experiences. The Ego does not like sudden changes. It wants organized predictable chunks of reality events to deal with, so that it can carry out it's task of evaluating what ifs and protect our being from transitioning into unknown territory where certainty of  awareness might not exist.

Further more Ego loves I Am but it is not it. This can easily be tested by saying out aloud "I Am Ego". It doesn't make sense because we are not. I Am and Ego is it's keeper. When we say "I Am Egoistic" we are not saying we are the Ego but rather that the I Am is focusing on the Ego function. The Ego in that sense is to our I Am as an arm is to our bodies. Just one part within I Am. A tool.

Now that we understand this we also see how preposterous it is to try to eliminate the  Ego from our being. Rather than seeking to destroy it all we have to do is understand that Ego is not always right in it's ways and does not always see things clearly. Nor is it always necessary to listen to the Ego's ranting about what should be. We can, when we are aware ignore the Ego entirely  as and when we are required to in order to move beyond our current boundaries. This in my view is what  being conscious or enlightened means. Recognition that I Am  is the only thing that we are. We are all it.

I Am and so are you



Just for today embrace the I Am, allow  the I Am to be to it's fullest potential, because you are no more and no less...

Awekening, enlightenment, awareness....

Awakening have all the symptoms and disorientation of waking up.

Enlightenment is what happens when your 'eyes' are still adjusting to the light being turned on.

Awareness is what comes after and the state of both being awake and seeing clearly what was always there when you were still asleep and too deep in dreamland to notice.

We too often confuse the exiting energizing stage of waking up and enlightenment with a desired higher state of permanence when in fact they are only transitional stages.

Stay exited for too long and you will eventually burn out.

Waking up and turning on the light is not the days work, it is what you do once you are awake that is. Part of it, is knowing when to rest and go back to sleep.

I Am

Life, the universe and everything...just one way of seeing it

Who are we? Explorers
Of what? Existence
To what end? To be
How did we come to be? Through process
What is this all about? You
What are you? Everything you experience
What is the sky? You perception of limit
What is the universe? Your actual limit
How large is the universe? As large as your perception of it
What is time? Your measure of noticeable changes
What is size? A way for you to assess importance in relation to you
What contains our universe? Nothing
What is contained within the 'uni' verse? Everything
Are there other universes? Yes
What is the other universe? Nothing
What are multiverses? Containers of perception
Can the truth be discovered? Yes you are discovering it now
What is the biggest mystery? The one yet to be understood
What is the practical implication of all this?

Imo the implication is we are only as limited as we believe we are. What about physical laws? They are what we believe and so are what limit us. As soon as out understanding of physics expands so does our limits. We are a collective experience and until the collective moves up a notch in believes, what you experience apart from the collective will always be seen as a figment of your own imagination. However not so. Because looking at history we find that what was once a figment of someones imagination has become the reality of everyones existence later on. What is 'real' is what the collective 'decides' it is able to process within it's experience. Our minds register alot of things that we do not acknowledge because the information is not 'useful' to make decisions in what currently is the functional reality. When the functional reality changes so does our mind filters. Just think about it this way. How many things have you experienced that you later have been told were just in your mind? What would have happened if you'd been told they were valid in terms of everyone elses minds? Would reality have been somewhat different? I think so. Would your mind have processed following experiences differently? Yes i very much believe so.

So in light of the above I say...enjoy your exploration and search because this is who you are. And be happy for it as long as there are no definite conclusions to anything. Because if there were and you reached it then nothing would happen and you would be obsolete. Somethings we discover may make us feel temporarily stagnant however when you turn it a few times in yor mind you will find that everything is as it always was and with a little more knowledge comes the choice to incorporate it asuseful or discard it as useless. That is the burden of knowledge.


Remember the first time you saw a ball. Ohh the exitement. What is it? You probably bit into it, touched it, smelled it, tasted it, threw it and finally one day you understood it. Then you got bored for a moment until you discovered ball games. So even if the object to you is 'just a ball' now,  you'll probalby go through a whole lifetime finding new uses for it and enjoying it again and again. To me that is life as a human searching for truth. First you must understand the thing, then you will find uses for it and then you use it as and when it is required.
 

Much love and enjoy the journey
"I Am"

What is

Between what is and what is not reigns the possibility of what could be. Some minds search through what is not looking for possibilities, some search possibilities for the answer to what is. Regardless of where you look the reality is, there is no where else you could be than right where you are.

On the now

Now encompass everything that is at any given moment. Every moment is fleeting and in the now. There is only now. What ever you do you do now. What ever you think you are thinking now. What ever you feel you feel it now. And since now is fleeting so are the things within the now. Now is as long or short as your perception allows. Some now extend over larger periods than others to our general perception. But when you accept that at any given now the now that preceeded and the now that followed are as different to one another as the now that is now. You realise that it is all in your mind. Even the now as you in reality is experience that now that already passed and are always processing the now that followed. What this means is that there is only now and all things are here. Past, present and future happening at once.