What we know for sure - I AM
What is the very first thing you can say about yourself for certain?
All 8 billion of us can say for certain that 'I AM '. We do not know what we are for certain, but we do know that WE ARE!
What do the words 'I am' refer to? They refer to the fact of simply being. The reason that we can all say that 'I am' is because we all know our being. We don't believe that 'I am', we haven't read that 'I am', we were not told, that 'I am'.
I was listening to a talk by Rupert Spira
My pull towards non-duality as a framework for reflection
Satyam - Gyanam - Ananta
Truth - Knowledge - Infinite
What is non-duality
Answer 3 existential questions that have troubled people from all times and circumstances
How may we find lasting peace and happiness?
What is the nature of reality?
How should we live?
a. Happiness is our nature. It is what we are. It is the nature of being.
Then one might ask - If it is the nature of myself and if I am always myself, then why am I not always happy?
Know thyself carved on top of the temple of Delphi.
To find happiness and knowledge one must know themselves
All knowledge
The veil of ignorance
b. What is the nature of reality - behind the
84 billion neurons that fire and syncronose with each other.