Zen story….When Emporer Wu asked Bodhidharma who he was, the sage said: I don’t know and walked off…

Did that mean that he would know who he was given more time to meditate? Or is he saying I am unknowable? Western science is built on the belief that given enough time and computer power everything is knowable, everything can be made conscious, which means knowable…This was Freud’s belief also…What’s in the unconscious must be made conscious if you are going to be healed and normal..

But in Buddhism, this is not the case; while the external world is certainly fair game for knowing, for transmuting everything into knowledge, when it comes to who I am…when I know who I am, I am then fixed and stop growing, and Life is change, life is growing, so when I stop learning who I am, I am walking dead…But can I arrive where I know who I am? We call this awakening…so is there an end or finality in awakening where time stops?

Awaking has no beginning and practice has no end; practice has no beginning and awakening has no end, (Zen)

So the Zen trick of awakening is that awakening is life and life is impermanence or change —things don’t change, things are change—therefore, we don’t awaken, we Are awakening, and that means there is no way to know who I am….I am a mystery to myself…the undefined…the unborn…always a discovery…free…