Ep. 26 - Going Meta - Buddhist Metta - Tis the Season 2019

Actuali

How can we see past our images of each other, to know each other as we are this moment, regardless of our different beliefs, as the always-changing ongoing miracles we truly are? Can we be without a prebuilt image of another, while still holding a prebuilt image of ourselves?

Behind descriptions of who we are according to traits, such as I am a [this profession], [this nationality], [this religion], with this name, these accomplishments, who is the I that has them? When we say, I am this or I am that, I like this, I like that, Who is the Actual I?

Welcome back to Actuali podcast! In this episode, we explore how we may drop the images, and see how we need not be attached to the ideas we hold, as they are simply tools we can use to interact with the world. Rather than allowing the ideas that appear in our minds to be our masters, we make peace with this figment of self we've come to mistake for the most fundamental Truth of our being.

It's time to get back in the driver seat. Let us embrace this paradox, that we are no-thing with room enough for everything, that we are limited only by our imaginations. Let us see how we exist prior to these personages, these mirages / cast images, these projections of ideas we've accumulated over time. We are not these jumbles of thoughts and memories of experiences. We are the knower of all experiences! The awareness before, behind, that continues on after each experience. We are this that has always been here, unaffected. But let's not get ahead of ourselves! Join us on the deep dive into this most fundamental mystery of life: Who are we beyond these images? Who is the Actual I?

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