A Paragraph About you

Who are you? What answers come to your mind? Perhaps the first response is your name. Who is behind the name? More than likely the next response is “a man or a woman, a guy, a person, etc.” Questioned further, who is that man or the woman? The answer will be “such and such, living in such and such city, doing such and such work”. But who are you when you are not those things? Who are you when you’re not thinking anything, not identifying yourself with anything? Who are you when you are in dreamless deep sleep? Who are you when all your identifications with people, objects, actions are removed? Do you cease to exist if you don’t have a name, don’t have a job description, don’t have any family or friends to tie yourself to? Who is left? Think about it. Or rather, stop thinking completely. That, which remains after all the thoughts stop, that you are. No one can describe it to you, but you can get a glimpse of your true self when all your thoughts come to stop. You are what remains, what is, always here and now, always being, free of any thought baggage and suffering that come with it. That you are. Everything that you think describes yourself, you are not. All of that is in your mind. But who are you when the mind is silent? When no thoughts arise, even if it is for a fraction of a second, do you stop being? The answer is no. That means, that if you still are when the mind is not, you are not what the mind thinks you to be. You truly are what is beyond mind. Question who you are. And remember, whatever description of you the mind brings to your attention, you are not that. Keep rejecting all those descriptions. When the mind stops coming up with any more descriptions after you have rejected all of them as not you, you will know YOU, the real YOU. You will know peace. You will know God.