SHACK 4097 THE QUESTION OF ME?

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 There is a well known quote in self growth and spiritual circles which is 'Who am I' and another quote is aid to be 'when you do not have to ask this anymore you have the answer', I  question that? Many gave up the questioning got despondent and went into several distractions.

When I was given a Koan by Sensei any answer I came up with was a swift response of a flick of the 'the encouragement stick-Rinzai keisalzu' and later on I understood why as in many back SHACK'S because any logical or 'smart arse' were likely inculcation, note in particular

persistently with repetition, advertising and education, lifestyles, religion, science all can be of this nature,` depending on how blatant, insidiously, subliminally and just repetitious chanting can induce such effects. Grooming by the internet of children and vulnerable persons have become a nightmare for the victims and those who are in authority and charged with upholding the moral compass and ethics. 

My exposition is that the 'me' is not in the thought process which to me is in the category of the conditioned inculcated brain mind processes. So this hints at something beyond thinking or explanation it is prime pristine consciousness and goes beyond description and definition, it is an experience. It is awareness without thought and the empty mind as it were of Eastern Philosophy is that. So emptiness is not a dull dark void but a consciousness of awareness an alert awakened sharp something without thought.

This theme of emptiness and in previous SHACKS  I refer to as 'nowhere to hang your hat'  not having an identity as such and a kind of rebirth back to 'show me your original face koan' and a further one 'show me your face before you were born' and this akin to to not having a choice with your birth and your name, the first inculcation, I refer to as Stamp 1. Having to live with this emptiness is the hall mark of the spiritual warier and not made into 'hook and false belief' and having to remind oneself to be empty.  Appreciating there are beliefs in reincarnation and pre-life contracts and this in serious research has some bearing on the birth, should one carry over unfinished business or failure to clear the cache of a previous incarnation then one may return to clear these issues and so have a clear pristine consciousness and perhaps we are witnessing now the clearing house of outworn not fit for purpose being forced by war torn wars and outdated fear and hate in order to come to the emptiness which is pure potential and a renewed cycle of a rebirth into awareness with thought and inspiration  coming from the empty seamless space as it were. 

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The conditioned mind is similar to the image above mainly all virtual reality, in fact the 'me, I and you' are constructed on beliefs which some are so fixed by persistent repetition that they become a platform, a construction pad, a known and safe place and yet on research and questioning are mere ideas that have been for centuries the rock bed of many and so clung too sometimes so fiercely that one would defend it to death and kill for it. The 'me' is a historical library and catalogue all bound together in a tome sometimes so heavily treasured and cherished they become holy.  

A quote by J. KrishnaMurti 'we are not afraid of the unknown we are afraid of losing the known' so much so that when we look at the Empty Atom and the Observer Effect we may be puzzled and the quantum 'stuff'  is making the theories, vast equations and names that boggle the intellect and yet many a physicist have seen one cannot put equations on the quantum stuff because there is every possibility and probability in there and has the observer the ability to choose a probability and possible choice, the choices are usually made from the 'known which is the Me'. 
 

The message of the empty atom is, is by the virtue of its emptiness it showing the emptiness  of the Universe and is not recognising that space, emptiness is awareness, it is consciousness.  Which is the ME before conditioning arose, also emptiness cannot be filled if it is then form and creation is there and all forms planets, stars and bugs are impermanent, they come and go whereas awareness does not, only when thought clouds the mirror of one's true self. They are virtual components projected onto the screen of mind by the collective belief system named ego. 'Mind is like a mirror bright make sure no dust alights'

Particles, atoms, molecules are said to be the building blocks of creation, they are found in stars and so on and they are so set that I feel they are mere platforms, scaffolds to hang certain thoughts on that clothe the ME with local impermanent virtual ideas and collected data, scientists have created the illusion as have Universe that these particles are real and delve into quantum stuff and one will see the mystery and instead of admitting the emptiness of it all mathematical equations and formulae, theories and vast machine to smash matter and find there is nothing there or even smaller 'bits' and when studying these bits one is studying oneself, we are the matter under the scanning electron microscope and really asking who are we? 

There are no atoms and so on they are mere constructs to help humans understand things about creation, they are steps on the way, rungs of the ladder until the conditioned local mind gives way and opens Itself to nonlocality and the illusion we exist and this is the illusion and delusion that actually we do not exist, this is the crux we have been inculcated to believe we exist whilst we may exist only in the Mind of The Universe, We were and are dreamed into existence by an aware intelligent creator, a part of the dream and fantasies of that pristine prime consciousness.

 SHACK aka GEOFF