Most of the time we hear questions like, “Who am I?”, “What am I doing here?”, “What is the purpose of all this…?” and so on. When thinking about these more common questions it’s helpful to also think about the latter – Where am I? This will lead us in the direction of another good question – What am I?

We ask these questions and we are led to certain concepts. They aren’t answers yet. Think of concepts as the scientist (real scientists) thinks of a hypothesis. Science starts with a hypothesis and seeks to disprove it. If after a certain amount of tests over a certain period of time the hypothesis is not disproved it may be moved up a level to a theory. At some point it may become a law. This law is never supposed to be a sort of “Scientific Gospel”. We should use it – only until it fails to predict or “pan out”. Until it doesn’t interface with the whole system.

So we search – we run across concepts which, almost exclusively, someone else has run across before. Someone has been where we are (if not everyone) and through whatever study or practice has found something out. These get written down and passed along and then, right when we need them, we find them. But we would do well not to look on them as answers. We’ll get more out of our search if we view them all as concepts. Now we can practice the concept. We can put it to the test.

I ran across something the other day while reading and I want to include it here:

“In the Far East, the Buddhists say that our full body, our real body, is composed of a trinity of three bodies: Nirmanakaya is the functioning body, the physical body with which we usually identify. Sambhogakaya is the body of our mental and emotional activity, and it is our capacity to enjoy, for it is the energy of eternal delight. Dharmakaya is our ultimate body, our real body, which consists of nothing less than the whole quantum field of the universe, for, in truth, we are One with All That Is.”

Note the “Trinity” reference? This idea exists in many, many studies and practices. It’s carried over into some religions, which are a all formed from earlier studies, concepts and practices.

So when looking at this idea, or concept, of the Dharmakaya, can we find some clues as to “where we are”? The concept states that – we are One with All That Is. It suggests an answer to the question – What am I? Which I might suggest is a far more useful question than who am I? Who I am develops out of what I am. Who I am changes all the time with new information, new realizations and by doing new or different things. So the whole, “who are we” question is always met with, “Who is asking…?”. The un-tricky answer is – you are who you think you are. There’s nothing else to it. “What am I?”, on the other hand, might lead us to an-other realization – which is always more fun.

The idea is that – I am a thing, that is connected to the universe. Or to refine it further – I am, connected to the universe. Or as the author wrote it – I am One with The Universe. Does that mean – I am The Universe? It might. That’s the concept I’m currently playing with and the one I wanted to extend today. What would that mean? Well – for me it makes the whole death idea seem less significant. Along with – who I think I am. What I think I should be doing. So where would this ” body me ” end? Where does the Universe end?