Knowing Who You Are Beyond the Form

True happiness is simply knowing who you are beyond the form-
Eckhart Tolle

So as we continue our search for healing we let go of these ideas of happiness that make it dependent on what happens around us, in us or to us. We also let go of this idea we have of self as the pain we experienced.  So if we do that and if we relinquish the  demands we place on the world, we just might find what we are looking for.

The demand people place on the manifested world is impossible: "Make me happy!" (Eckhart Tolle)

Frustration with our unmet demands on the world of form can lead to healing

Once we get frustrated enough in our search for happiness out there and in the future...discovering that it just doesn't work that way...we may finally become ready for healing. We may be  willing to become comfortable with things, places, people, our bodies  as they are.  We put away our expectations that they be different and we turn our attention elsewhere...to the quiet space of who we really are beyond the world of form.

We are not the roles we play

In the world of form we take on identities and roles and too often we get lost in them.  We are not our family roles ( daughter, mother, father, brother), we are not our social roles ( friend, famous person, wall flower) nor are we the professional roles we take on ( doctor, nurse, teacher, electrician) .  We are the simply the spacious stage on which these roles are played.  The essence of who we are is formless and we manifest in form.  That's all.

Beyond the form to the formless

There is no way to truly 'get this' idea with the conceptual mind (which is form).  We need to go beyond the thoughts, feelings, ideas and concepts we identified with to that quiet space of who we really are to know this truth. To know who we really are we need to still and quiet the body and mind  and ask the question "Who am I?" Then we listen...not with our busy doing and thinking self... but with the quiet still Self that is always aware.  We go there.

Who am I?

Kim Eng, in a video by the same name as that imperative question asked by many sages throughout the ages,  takes us through a 20 minute meditation that helps us to connect to Self or at least sincerely ask that question. Please see the link below.

Tapping into that aware space of who we really are beyond form,  once or twice a day, will lead to true happiness and healing.

All is well.

References

Eng, Kim (Feb, 2019) Who am I? Guided Meditation. Eckhart Tolle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5dlmylOZk

Tolle, Eckhart ( March, 2019) Your Unhappiness is Optional .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOCsXSSLYjA