Oneness

Joseph P. Kauffman
body when the body you have now is not at all the same
body you had at birth, during childhood, a year ago, or
even a day ago?
We cling to the mental forms of our beliefs, thoughts,
and opinions, believing that our mind is what makes us
who we are. But everything that makes up your mind is the
result of your past conditioning, your experiences, your
circumstances, the information you have obtained, the
events that your mind has witnessed and documented in
the form of memory. Who were you before your mind had
been conditioned to view life as it now sees it?
Everything in the Universe is constantly changing,
nothing remains the same for even a moment. There is no
solidity, there are no permanent forms, no enduring
entities; there is only one vast universal process continually
changing, moving, and evolving together.
All forms are composed of other forms. A body is
made up of atoms, cells, microbes, bones, tissues, muscles,
nerves, etc. These forms that make up your body can only
exist because of the other forms that fuel them—the
plants, air, and water of the Earth, the heat, light and
energy of the sun. There is no thing that exists in itself; all
things are connected, a part of the same ever changing
event that we call life.
If everything that has an apparent form is in truth
formless, wouldn’t the true nature of the Universe itself
then be formless? If everything with form is constantly
undergoing change, then where does that leave you? Who
are you if you are not any of the forms that you have been
conditioned to identify with?
You are the formless awareness in which all forms
exist. Forms come and go, but the awareness that
witnesses and experiences form is always present.
Throughout every one of life’s experiences, there is always
an awareness present, there is always YOU here to
perceive these forms and turn them into your reality. If
there were no awareness how could anything exist at all?
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