Krishna Boon · Spiritual Philosophy · Book Two
I Am
The Name You Were Before You Had One
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The Name You Were Before You Had One
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Before the Universe Said Yes walked outward — from source to creation to you. I Am walks the other way: inward, through every name you answer to, until only one word remains — the word that was here before all the others.
Remove every label, one at a time, in the ancient practice of neti neti — not this, not this — until you reach the single thing that cannot be removed: the bare I am. Then discover that this most private word is the oldest Name there is: the name spoken at the burning bush (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh), the Vedic Aham Brahmasmi, the Sufi Ana al-Haqq, the breath's own So'ham.
"The most intimate thing in you is the most universal thing there is."
The companion to Book One, and a door of its own — written in the same voice that reads as remembering, not arguing. The most private word you own turns out to be the name God answered with.
Each pair of chapters opens with an original painterly plate. From the first name you ever answered to, through the burning bush, to the one awareness wearing your face.
Watch a small child learn their name. At first the word means nothing — just a sound the large faces make, one among the river of sounds. Then, slowly, something connects. The sound is spoken and the child looks up. A door has opened. The child has learned that this particular noise, out of all the noise in the world, means me.
But something was covered over in the very same instant it was won. Before the name, there was simply the child — present, awake, looking out with no idea that it was a "self" with a label. And then the name arrived, and with it the first faint line was drawn: here is me, and there is everything else.
So let me ask you the question this whole book is built around. What were you, in the instant before you were told who you were? Not your name — that came later. Not your body — you have had several, and you remained through all of them. Underneath all of it, something was simply here, aware, being. That something never got a name.
It is the first word you ever lost. And it has been saying itself, under your breath, your whole life. Read the rest →
A meditation in sound and image — the book's spirit, set to music.
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