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Personality

Each and every human is unique. ("unique snow flakes" as the saying goes).

It applies to physical characteristics (form) and to what would be described as personality characteristics (also form).

The Is-ness, however, is what is actually there in the immediacy of now. To put together the concept of 'personality' requires a reference to time and a story and is therefore an abstraction. It is not what is actually there. Not what IS. So in actuality a 'personality' does not exist as such. It is only a concept.

However in the human world we use time and thought - and we put together the concept. If we put that concept together for ourselves - it becomes the 'me', the reference point which changes over time. So we suffer.

If we put a conceptual image together for other people, just as we have one for ourselves, we end up with an abstraction for them as well.

But all this is about IDEAS of WHAT we are and IDEAS of WHAT they are. All concepts. All abstractions. All reference points.

If we 'drop', or see through, our own concepts about ourselves - our essential nature has not changed. All that is gone is the 'me'. Natural Functioning continues as it always has, but this time there is no 'me'.

Our full Aliveness, however, is still there, as alive as ever!! And our uniqueness is still there too.

Where does our uniqueness come from? Every grasshopper, every cat, every fly is unique and different. It is an aspect of the Aliveness of that Form. An aspect of the One Life. The One Taste.

The uniqueness of children is visible very early, before language, before conceptual thought.

Their uniqueness is already present, without a conceptual 'me'.

It is Natural Functioning of that form, without a 'me'.

Life itself Living us through that form.

Personality is a uniqueness of form - but it is not who one really is (the formless)

Written by Mike Graham, 19 Jan 2008, last edited 17 Feb 2008