Many of our great teachers have guided us in our search of finding out who we really are. My friends, Chon and Jasmine, came back from India with their guru Mooji's words ringing in their ears: Find out who the "I" is.
I have turned again to one of the Buddhist teachers.
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| Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) |
Who am I? Who am I? we ask the eternal question. I
meditate, I contemplate, I study on this question. I was randomly reading Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and these words popped from a page.
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door
which moves when we inhale
and when we exhale.
He explains that when we practice sitting meditation, the movement of the breath is all that exists: "When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no 'I,' no world, no mind nor body, just a swinging door."
The practice brings us to a place where we see we are purely independent of and, at the same time, dependent upon everything. Like the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon, dependent and independent upon one another.
So I keep breathing in and out, in and out working on bringing the inner world and the outer world together, eliminating all duality, revealing my universal nature, my Buddha nature.
Thank you for joining me on the pathway to awareness.
