Dropping the need to know who I am, has freed me from so much suffering.
Before thinking occurs, there is a space where the True Essence of our being lives.
The mind is a machine, that is always looking to calculate, analyse, understand and intellectualise.
The mind creates labels, an identity, and a bunch of ideas of who it thinks we are. It operates on the assumption that if it knows more, it’ll be able to keep you safe.
When you see a baby, they don’t need to know anything. They are content with just being. They are expressions of our True Nature.
We speak about the innocence of babies and young children. That innocence is the deep connection they have with who they truly are, without thought-created reality clouding it.
We marvel at how kids live in the moment and don’t get caught up in thought and the ‘stress of adult life.’
They don’t get caught in it because they don’t need to know.
Somewhere along the line, we got taught that knowing stuff, and knowing who we are is a requirement for leading a successful life.
What if the opposite is true?
What if trying to label ourselves and know ourselves and know what’s going to happen in a week, a month, or a year from now, is taking us away from realising what we really are?
We arrived with the same divine energy that we will leave this earth as.
The only thing that is getting in the way of us realising that is temporary thought in the moment, that feels deeply personal when we believe it to be 100% true. But it is always temporary and moving.
