{"id":2688,"date":"2011-11-20T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T08:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/processworkhub.gr\/blog\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2011-11-20T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T08:57:05","slug":"%cf%80%cf%89%cf%82-%ce%be%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%80%cf%81%ce%b1%ce%b3%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ac-%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%83%ce%b1%ce%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/processworkhub.gr\/blog\/%cf%80%cf%89%cf%82-%ce%be%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%80%cf%81%ce%b1%ce%b3%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ac-%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%83%ce%b1%ce%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a0\u03c9\u03c2 \u03be\u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac \u03b5\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/media\/15f0467f-d351-4224-acf5-df3f2ba9d5a0\/e\/m\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"605\" height=\"377\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03af\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf \u03ad\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2 \u03c5\u03c0\u03cc\u03c4\u03b9\u03c4\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 &#8211; \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03ae \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03cd \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03af\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf)<\/p>\n<p>Any thought that you have had about yourself,<br \/>\nhowever deflated or inflated,<br \/>\nis not who you are.<br \/>\nIt is simply a thought.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of who you are cannot be thought,<br \/>\nbecause it is the source of all thoughts.<br \/>\nThe truth of who you are cannot be named or defined.<br \/>\nWords like soul, light, God, truth, self, consciousness,<br \/>\nthe universal intelligence, or divinity,<br \/>\nwhile capable of evoking the bliss of the truth,<br \/>\nare grossly inadequate as a description of the immensity of who you truly are.<\/p>\n<p>However you identify yourself:<br \/>\nas child,<br \/>\nadolescent, a mother, a father, an older person, healthy person, sick person,<br \/>\na suffering person, or an enlightened person &#8211;<br \/>\nalways, behind all of that,<br \/>\nis the truth of yourself.<br \/>\nIt is not foreign to you.<br \/>\nIt is so close that you cannot believe it is you.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of who you are is untouched by any concept of who you are,<br \/>\nwhether ignorant or enlightened,<br \/>\nworthless or grand.<br \/>\nThe truth of who you are is free of it all.<br \/>\nYou are already free<br \/>\nand all that blocks your realization of that freedom<br \/>\nis your own attachment to some thought of who you are.<br \/>\nThis thought doesn&#8217;t keep you from being the truth of who you are.<br \/>\nYou already are that.<br \/>\nIt separates you from the realization of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to let your attention dive into what has always been here,<br \/>\nwaiting openly for its own self-realization.<br \/>\nWho are you, really?<br \/>\nAre you some image that appears in your mind?<br \/>\nAre you some sensation that appears in your body?<br \/>\nAre you some emotion that passes through your mind and body?<br \/>\nAre you something that someone else has said you are,<br \/>\nor are you the rebellion against something that someone else has said you are?<br \/>\nThese are some of the many avenues of misidentification.<br \/>\nAll of these definitions come and go,<br \/>\nare born and then die.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of who you are does not come and go.<br \/>\nIt is present before birth, throughout a lifetime, and after death.<br \/>\nTo discover the truth of who you are is not only possible<br \/>\nit is your birthright.<br \/>\nAny thoughts that this discovery is not for you,<br \/>\nnow is not the time,<br \/>\nyou are not worthy,<br \/>\nyou are not ready,<br \/>\nyou already know who you are,<br \/>\nare just tricks of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to investigate this I-thought<br \/>\nand see what validity it really has.<br \/>\nIn this examination,<br \/>\nthere is an opening for the conscious intelligence that you are<br \/>\nto finally recognize itself.<\/p>\n<p>The most important question you can ever ask yourself is:<br \/>\nWho am I?<br \/>\nIn a certain way, this has been an implicit question asked throughout every stage of your life.<br \/>\nEvery activity,<br \/>\nwhether individual or collective,<br \/>\nis motivated at its root by a search for self-definition.<br \/>\nTypically, you search for a positive answer to this question<br \/>\nand run away from a negative answer.<br \/>\nOnce this question becomes explicit,<br \/>\nthe momentum and the power of the question<br \/>\ndirect the search for the true answer,<br \/>\nwhich is open-ended, alive,<br \/>\nand filled with ever deepening insight.<\/p>\n<p>You have experienced both success and failure.<br \/>\nAfter a certain stage,<br \/>\nearly or late,<br \/>\nyou realize that, who you are,<br \/>\nhowever that is defined,<br \/>\nis not satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>Unless this question has been truly answered,<br \/>\nnot just conventionally answered,<br \/>\nyou will still be hungry to know.<br \/>\nBecause, no matter how you have been defined by others,<br \/>\nwell-meaning or not,<br \/>\nand no matter how you have defined yourself,<br \/>\nno definition can bring lasting certitude.<\/p>\n<p>The moment of recognizing that no answer has ever satisfied this question is crucial.<br \/>\nIt is often referred to as the moment of spiritual ripeness,<br \/>\nthe moment of spiritual maturity.<br \/>\nAt this point,<br \/>\nyou can consciously investigate who you really are.<br \/>\nIn its power and simplicity,<br \/>\nthe question Who am I?<br \/>\nthrows the mind back to the root of personal identification,<br \/>\nthe basic assumption: I am somebody.<br \/>\nRather than automatically taking that assumption as the truth,<br \/>\nyou can investigate deeper.<\/p>\n<p>It is not difficult to see that this initial thought, &#8220;I am somebody&#8221;,<br \/>\nleads to all kinds of strategies:<br \/>\nto be a better somebody, a more protected somebody,<br \/>\na somebody with more pleasure, more comfort, more attainment.<br \/>\nBut when this very basic thought is questioned,<br \/>\nthe mind encounters the I<br \/>\nthat is assumed to be separate from what it has been seeking.<br \/>\nThis is called self-inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>This most basic question: Who am I?,<br \/>\nis the one that is the most overlooked.<br \/>\nWe spend most of our days telling ourselves or others<br \/>\nwe are someone important,<br \/>\nsomeone unimportant, someone big, someone little,<br \/>\nsomeone young, someone old,<br \/>\nnever truly questioning this most basic assumption:<\/p>\n<p>Who are you, really?<br \/>\nHow do you know: that is who you are?<br \/>\nIs that true? Really?<br \/>\nWhen you turn your attention toward the question:<br \/>\nWho am I?<br \/>\nperhaps you will see an entity that has your face and your body.<br \/>\nBut who is aware of that entity?<br \/>\nAre you the object,<br \/>\nor, are you the awareness of the object?<br \/>\nThe object comes and goes.<br \/>\nThe parent, the child, the lover,<br \/>\nthe abandoned one, the enlightened one, the victorious one,<br \/>\nthe defeated one.<br \/>\nThese identifications all come and go.<br \/>\nThe awareness of these identifications is always present.<\/p>\n<p>The misidentification of yourself as some object in awareness<br \/>\nleads to extreme pleasure or extreme pain<br \/>\nand endless cycles of suffering.<br \/>\nWhen you are willing to stop the misidentification<br \/>\nand discover directly and completely that you are the awareness itself<br \/>\nand not these impermanent definitions,<br \/>\nthe search for yourself in thought ends.<br \/>\nWhen the question Who?<br \/>\nis followed innocently, purely,<br \/>\nall the way back to its source,<br \/>\nthere is a huge, astounding realization:<br \/>\nThere is no entity there at all!<\/p>\n<p>There is only the indefinable, boundless recognition of yourself<br \/>\nas inseparable from anything else.<br \/>\nYou are free.<br \/>\nYou are whole. You are endless.<br \/>\nThere is no bottom to you, no boundary to you.<br \/>\nAny idea about yourself appears in you<br \/>\nand will disappear back into you.<\/p>\n<p>You are awareness,<br \/>\nand awareness is consciousness.<br \/>\nLet all self-definitions die in this moment.<br \/>\nLet them go, and see what remains.<br \/>\nSee what is never born and what does not die.<br \/>\nFeel the relief of laying down the burden of defining yourself.<br \/>\nExperience the actual non-reality of the burden.<br \/>\nExperience the joy that is here.<br \/>\nRest in the endless peace of your true nature<br \/>\nbefore any thought of I arises.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03af\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf \u03ad\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2 \u03c5\u03c0\u03cc\u03c4\u03b9\u03c4\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 &#8211; \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03ae \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03cd \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03af\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf) Any thought that you have had about yourself, however deflated or inflated, is not who you are. It is simply a thought. The truth of who you are cannot be thought, because it is the source of all thoughts. 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