Tiny Revolutions №76: Poking Holes in Our Stories

This one question—“What do I know for certain?”—is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, belief

We start to inhabit a world of mental projections, filled with shadows and ghosts bred in the mind. In other words, we’re brainwashed by our knee-jerk reactivity. We live in a small, cramped world of our own making.

If you can pose and hold the question “What am I?” until what you really are presents itself, it’s the fastest was to complete freedom. But I have yet to meet the person who has done it. But if you’d stay around the clock with only “What am I?” rejecting all other thought, in a matter of a few weeks, you’d have it. In any event, you should always h