Hi,
I would just offer this caution ...
What is it that thinks? What am I? Not conceptually speaking, but existentially, what AM I!?!
This is the most important question, because without knowing what you are, how can you know if your thoughts have any truth?
While you are pursuing your question to find out
who you truly are, do not miss the fact that Chogetsu (the fellow who started this thread) is just Chogetsu, Emptyzen (what is your name, as you do not sign your postings?) is just Emptyzen (and each thought of Emptyzen's head just Emptyzen too), and David is 100% precisely David ... without one hair to add or take away from David's head to make him more David.
In a vital way, a search like this is much like an onion's searching for its own "essence" (its "
True Onion"!! :lol: ) by pealing away layer upon layer*, only to find as the last leaves are pulled away ... emptyness. In doing so, it may miss its own pungent beauty (I guess that in this fruit stand, we sell vegetables too)
David (like the others) truly wishes to find the True David ... and he may find many faces of David in doing so. He may find that the farthest stars and each single blade of grass is also just David's face, he may find that Chogetsu and Emptyzen and Jundo are just David's face, he may find the empty core of the onion is just David's face ... he may even find that God is David's face ...
... but he had best never forget that David is just David's face.
Is my meaning pretty clear?
Gassho, Jundo
* Chet, thank you for a lovely way of looking at this.