We all have many answers to the question who are you? Everything that we can think of such as our age, our job, our sex, our name, our values, our experiences, our history, our dreams, etc. But really none of these answers is truly sufficient to describe who one truly is. Each of these descriptions is a snapshot. My question is, who are you wholly? Who are you without using some description from your past or some idea of your future. Who, What are you right in this moment? Who are you when you don't refer to the thoughts in your head to tell you who you are?
If you suddenly found yourself with amnesia and you had no way of recollecting your past and no way to build a future, what would you be?
So much of our attention goes into recreating the past and generating a future so that we can maintain the thread of our sense of self. If we were to simply direct that same energy to what is here, now and always, we would be living our lives truly as an alive radiant Presence.
Are we willing to give up both our history and legacy as well as our fantasy of the future, and finally see what is eternally true right here?
It is a great challenge to die to the past and die to the future and live as what you always have been underneath the cloak of your history and fantasy.
It is only then that we are really seeing ourselves as we really are, and then that we can be free of the burdens of the past and the burdens of the future.
Without a past or future life could seem confusing, disorienting....but it can also be extraordinarily free and deeply rich.
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I think that most of us consider living without past nor future as non-existence. That fear of loosing existence prevents us from being in the present moment.
A very good question, by the way - who am I without past or future?
Who am I indeed.
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