Who am I? I am the “knower”, the one who is viewing.
I have many dreams where I am myself but I am also just viewing myself in my body, watching things that I am doing, still in full control of my mind, but also slightly detached from my body. I guess this is the closest I have been to understanding Atman.One way of looking at Atman is the practice of seeing “God” in yourself, your soul and in essence your true self.
We live in a very crowded society where our minds are constantly clouded and cluttered with our stuff. Our mental stuff and also our physical, actual stuff...(and sometimes other people’s “stuff” if we are sensitive to it)
Traveling, and especially backpacking is a great way to get perspective on this. You are limited to a small amount of stuff, and all that you have is all you can carry. If only things were so simple in our day to day lives. Carrying the weight of only what we need, what if we could do this emotionally and mentally? How much more freedom we would have to explore inside of ourselves and find Atman.
The practice of Brahman as I view it is seeing “God” in everyone and everything, the universe outside of ourselves. Being connected to all that is around us is the ultimate unification. Just like the nature of clutter within our own lives, the more we start to DE-clutter and free ourselves from the instant the more we are able to connect to our surroundings. We become less attached to instant gratifications such as material objects, things of lust, and wants, we get closer to the real nature of life and the universe!
I have many dreams where I am myself but I am also just viewing myself in my body, watching things that I am doing, still in full control of my mind, but also slightly detached from my body. I guess this is the closest I have been to understanding Atman.One way of looking at Atman is the practice of seeing “God” in yourself, your soul and in essence your true self.
We live in a very crowded society where our minds are constantly clouded and cluttered with our stuff. Our mental stuff and also our physical, actual stuff...(and sometimes other people’s “stuff” if we are sensitive to it)
Traveling, and especially backpacking is a great way to get perspective on this. You are limited to a small amount of stuff, and all that you have is all you can carry. If only things were so simple in our day to day lives. Carrying the weight of only what we need, what if we could do this emotionally and mentally? How much more freedom we would have to explore inside of ourselves and find Atman.
The practice of Brahman as I view it is seeing “God” in everyone and everything, the universe outside of ourselves. Being connected to all that is around us is the ultimate unification. Just like the nature of clutter within our own lives, the more we start to DE-clutter and free ourselves from the instant the more we are able to connect to our surroundings. We become less attached to instant gratifications such as material objects, things of lust, and wants, we get closer to the real nature of life and the universe!
