of my life, and without that limiting thought, the
whole structure of my understanding fell apart. With
the destruction of that concept, I became one with the
world, not as a concept, but as an experience of
“awakening to no-self - 'I Am' the world.”
The beginning and end of what I am is what I
identify with as ‘I’ or ‘me’. I am not just a body, or
just the mind. I am much, much more than this.
The First Awakening:...............................................................
No Self; There is Only One!.....................................................
One morning, I returned from my morning walk,
which that day seemed especially invigorating, and
took a shower. I felt unusually relaxed; the warm
water was incredibly inviting. Feeling the water's
delightful touch on my back, I looked within, into the
inner emptiness of consciousness, trying to see if I
could find ‘who’ it was that experienced the water's
touch. I had done this observation thousands of times
before, in thousands of different circumstances,
seeking the 'I' who was the experiencer and never
finding it, yet clinging still to the notion I was an ‘I’,
an inner person.