I Am Before I See

[ivankiss]

I am first.

 

Before I think; I am.

Before I feel; I am.

Before I perceive; I am.

Before I speak; I am.

Before I interpret; I am.

Before I believe; I am.

Before I imagine; I am.

 

As I am now; All is.

Unless I am; None is.

 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

Woo-hoo, finally! The 82nd verse of Tao Te Ching we've all been waiting for!

[mandyjw]

Cool, but what's next? 

[ivankiss]

@Bazooka Jesus ?

15 minutes ago, mandyjw said:

Cool, but what's next? 

I am ?

[Bulgarianspirit]

When all thoughts, perceptions and feelings stop, then you get a state similar if not identical to deep sleep.

Idk about you guys but at different points, deep sleep has been as rejuvenating as meditation.

Be as you are is the most chill state there is.

[flume]

Yes. Yes. Yes.

 

Adyashanti once said: “It takes all of life for a single body to exist.”

You ARE. And yet, you couldn’t know yourself without perception. 

 

Everything depends on everything.

 

Form depends on God. 

God depends on form. 

 

Form is God. 

God is form.

 

Reality is the most intimate thing there is.

[The0Self]

I am is actually a dream. There is just what is, and it’s everything, what apparently happens — there isn’t anything else. And it’s unknowable. So if you know you are, that’s not actually happening. There is only what is apparently happening. No consciousness — not for “you” anyway.

[ivankiss]

10 hours ago, flume said:

Reality is the most intimate thing there is.

❤

9 hours ago, The0Self said:

I am is actually a dream

I am not is a dream. 

Being is infinite. Not being is an idea.

9 hours ago, The0Self said:

There is just what is

What is; I am.

9 hours ago, The0Self said:

And it’s unknowable. 

That which is unknowable; I am.

9 hours ago, The0Self said:

No consciousness — not for “you” anyway.

I am. Therefore; consciousness is.

[The0Self]

8 hours ago, ivankiss said:

I am not is a dream.

Also very true ?

Touche!