I am no one.

[BrotherKinsMan]

If I am everyone, how can I be anyone?

Therefore, I am no one.

But I am One.

One.



How many have there been?

How many are there still?

How many more still?


I am someone.

I know this, I know myself.

I make this claim with authority.


But in being One,

I am everyone.

Everyone is.


If I am everyone, how then can I be anyone?


Bah, I'll just start with One for now.

I am content with myself.

[UltraBudgie]

Hey! That sounds just like the kind of thing

I say!

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Hey! That sounds just like the kind of thing

I say!

Of course! Everyone is everyone after all

[UltraBudgie]

Of course! Everyone is everyone after all

This is the bit that gets me:

Bah, I'll just start with One for now.

I am content with myself.

How does one maintain a believe that borders on solipsistic, with an acknowledgement of other individuals—who might therefore represent aspects, reflections, or inversions of one's self—and still practice contented engagement with the world? It seems to me that many who reach that point flee to mountaintop solitude or the forests of the sannyasa.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

This is the bit that gets me:


How does one maintain a believe that borders on solipsistic, with an acknowledgement of other individuals—who might therefore represent aspects, reflections, or inversions of one's self—and still practice contented engagement with the world? It seems to me that many who reach that point flee to mountaintop solitude or the forests of the sannyasa.

There is no spoon.

*Especially after the sannyasa*

[BrotherKinsMan]

How does one maintain a believe that borders on solipsistic, with an acknowledgement of other individuals—who might therefore represent aspects, reflections, or inversions of one's self—and still practice contented engagement with the world? It seems to me that many who reach that point flee to mountaintop solitude or the forests of the sannyasa.

My balcony on a sunny day suffices.

^_^

[Maxmars]

I once heard a dialogue in a kung-fu movie... a man introfuced himself as "Wu Ming" which if looked as in its character form reads as "no name."  It was his play on the eastern philosophies messages regarding the illusory nature of claimed identity.

I thought I understood.

Until I became nobody.

Being no one is not safer, not especially desirable for me...
I need people.   I need them to need me.
It affirms my humanity, and gives me hope.

I'm just a human being... trying to be human.

[Bootless]

If I am everyone, how can I be anyone?

Let us suppose, for just this moment,
that:
There are many ones
of which no one is another one.

There is One
of which there are no others.

If one communes with One
then does one encompass One
or does One encompass one?

[UltraBudgie]

I have a disturbing suspicion that Scientology explains this all quite clearly, if properly interpreted.

[Maxmars]

It does sometimes irk me that wisdom is not 'rare'... It's just so thinly spread across so much bullshit.