A I M

You are what you eat, is something health orientated people often summarize their understanding about nourishing the body. Not too difficult to understand? How is your body supposed to produce sustainable health out of lousy ingredients?

You are what you follow, is something I, as a wellbeing orientated person, summarize my understanding about harmonizing life (nourishing body, mind and soul).

It is interesting to observe that many teachings on these topics make abundant use of the verbs ‘to be’  and ‘ to follow’.

“I am the truth, the light and the way…follow me”, is quite well known from somebody most famous for being a son.
The father of this son , when asked what he is called, supposedly referred to himself with this rather mysterious sequence of words:” I am that I am”.
The son added to all that confusion the statement:”The father and I are one”

It is all very confusing,  trying to grasp this applying common understandings of the English language on this all. ‘To follow’ implies a distance in space/time. 

Space:
Something is somewhere else, has a movement away from your current position  and you move in the very same direction. Following implies, aiming to be somewhere else.

Time:
It can also be another type of movement, to follow someone’s example…. somebody else is doing/having  something and with the delay of having observed that and finding it appealing, I do or have exactly the same in the same way later. Following is then aiming to have another experience as the one I am having right now.

Now, this famous father, his famous son, and many others relaying understandings on how  the process of  ‘life’ works, indicate that things get more clear stepping away from the existence of time.
Modern spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle for instance, translates that as living in the now, the only moment where you actually live, that you are experiencing and forming. (Letting go of living in the past and/or future increases your awareness of what IS in the present…)

How to simultaneously be and follow, with no time-gap, is something a mind running on ‘ English’ has  difficulties to get the  head around. For in the concept of following there is an intrinsic aim to differ: to be something else, be somewhere else.

A mind running on ‘French’, might not find it so hard to see how being and following, right in this moment, can indeed not-differ at all.

• I am ( present tense of to be) = je suis ( verb: être)
• I follow (present tense of to follow)  = je suis (verb: suivre)

Semantics? Only play on words? A purely coincidental funny find?

Well, I don’t think so.

Now that we’ve seen the possibility, it can even be shown on an English palette of choice, by going to their purest elements.

• What describes my current state: I am….. consist of the smallest components : I A M
• What describes to direction I am moving into: aim … consist of the smallest components:  A I M

He, those are the very same components, simultaneously present!

Look at the image on top of this blog post and you see, that the elements don’t change, only the order in which you give them attention, to apply them.

Cool, little side step now away from the palette of choice in the human mind….only, to return to it from another angle.

A tomato
A tomato seed could describe itself at any given time as: I am tomato True, in as much as, it is not ‘thuna’ or ‘ apple’ or ‘ human’.
Simultaneously of being tomato, it has the built in aim to express all the various aspects of its tomato potential, to grow.
Whether this tomato is in the presence of a thuna, an apple or a human, regardless of how inspired he feels by these other occurrences of life, the only example he can actually follow, by being,  is the built-in blue print of being tomato.
That blue print never changes, although the being is moving though various stages of its development, from seed to seedling, into plant, into showing flowers, into developing fruit. However, there is not a moment in its development where it, or any part of it, is not tomato.
The A I M, ands the I AM of being tomato, co-exist simultaneously and co-create the next moment.

Now, esoteric teachings tell us, that on a very fundamental level of our existence, all of life is one. We are all the same thing, the same stuff in one entity even.
Only, that stuff is not stuff-stuff (a.k.a. matter) , it is energy; energy in motion, energy in development. Following a blueprint of growing, evolving, expanding, fulfilling the potential.
Roots, leaves and branches? Fruits of labour (money, mortgage and Mercedes)?
No, this is the world of energy, not the world of matter, so what grows and expands and bears fruit is…..consciousness.

No consciousness grows happily and harmoniously on feeding your body, mind and soul the lowest most toxic, ill-making vibes you can find.
I am energy, I become what I aim my attention at ( focussed my energy investments on).

What quality vibes are you being and aiming your energy at? 

(P.S. that has may have less to do with the form of that which you focus on, than the energy the entity in front of you is emiting....... computers and televisions send vibes on very low frequencies), regardless of how nice, appealing or uplifting the content is meant to be)