Are You a Truth Seeker? Can You Look Within and See Yourself?

Category Best of Ariel Bravy, Enlightenment

Many people who are seeking Truth, be they scientists, spiritual seekers, or religious practitioners, are looking to find how they fit into the world and what their purpose is.

At the core of this search one finds the question “Who Am I?”

Once you figure out who you are, then you know how you fit into the puzzle of life and what your role in it is. So… who are you?

Can you ever actually see yourself?

Can you look outside of yourself to see yourself?

Let’s allow Adyashanti to take us on an adventure. Let’s see if it’s possible to actually “look within” as so many masters have told us to do.

So if the question, “Who Am I?” is just a temporary movement of thought, who am I that’s having this experience?

Are you the awareness who is aware of the thought?

Are you the observer who is watching the thinking?

Are you the witness who is seeing the questioning?

Are you the presence providing the foundation for the inquiry?

Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes.

When the seeking stops, when the eyeball quits searching for itself, what’s left? Who’s left?

Who are you when you cease looking for yourself? Who are you now being?

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2 Responses to “Are You a Truth Seeker? Can You Look Within and See Yourself?”

Jarrod - Warrior Development said:

Interesting, I have always thought of the question as ‘what am I?’ rather than ‘who am I?’.

‘Who’ always felt unnecessary because I already had an external identity and an internal one is not needed.

I just had to know what this feeling I am is.

Jarrod – Warrior Developments last blog post..Different Culture, But it is not that Different
Ariel Bravy said:

Yeah Jarrod, in addition to what you said, there’s also a lot of validity in asking “what” instead of “who” because it gets you to look beyond a human personality and towards the impersonal awareness.

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