Do you ever know the background to who you are?
What is your name, nationality?
Are you young, middle aged, old?
... a mother, father, grandparent, brother, sister, wife, husband?
... a thinker or a doer - or both?
... self-focused?
... unselfish?
... employed, work from home, retired?
... a driver, pilot, teacher, trainer, student, mechanic, engineer, artist, writer?
... outgoing, shy, clever, creative, passionate, a dreamer, funny, kind, sporty, trendy, lazy, energetic, attractive, not attractive, confident, loyal, friendly, successful?
... emotional, intellectual, spiritual?
... and so much more - hidden from view in our unconscious.
The totality of our self is constantly changing.
Thoughts passing through our mind, feelings - even every cell of our physical body is constantly changing and being replaced.
But is there something about you that is 'behind' all this - that observes it all?
Is there an unchanging background?
Yes.
There is.
But what IS it?
We do not know.
But it is there - in the background.
From this 'background' we observe what happens in the foreground of our conscious mind, in our body and in the external world.
This combination of the ever-changing foreground of the body/mind/world - and the never changing background - is the totality of the self that we know.
The foreground is temporary.
The background - well, the truth is, we do not know - but it may be that the 'background' is like a gateway or connection point to the truth of who we truly and eternally are.
John