If I ask who you are, you will probably tell me your name. But your name is clearly not you. If your parents had given you a different name, would you still be you? Yeah, yeah, you might be thinking, I don’t really care about the name, but I am pretty pretty sure I am this body, regardless of name. But I ask you, how are you so sure? Largely because you have thought you were the body your entire life 🙂
It is natural to identify with the body, because that is what we have been taught from the moment we were born. We were taught by our parents that we are the person, just as they were taught by their parents. Stop for a moment and consider that you might not be the person. Ummmmm, ok but if I’m not the person, who am I exactly? Who is this I? We’ll get there I promise. For now let’s just start the inquiry process and see where it takes us…
