Essence of Breema

When you look at yourself, you need to have a correct picture of what it is you’re looking at. Or at least an approximately correct picture. What are you? Are you the body you see in the mirror? Are you the name people address you by? How do you look at yourself?  

You are two people, really. One...

It’s as though someone asks you who you are, and you say, “I went shopping and bought a white shirt, and it’s made of cotton.” These are all events of life that happen to you, and they’re exactly what you are not. They are the storyof your life—you were born in this country, you went to that college...

If you look in a mirror, you see the image of your body. You identify with that image, and you take yourself to be this physical body, which everyone refers to by your name. If you understand the relationship between you and the image of you that appears in the mirror, you’ve understood something...

Words are like cups. Their importance is in the meaning they contain. We have to learn to open words and get inside them, to extract their meaning. We relate to things literally. But the literal only conveys form and sequence, not understanding. Our problems come from not looking into things, not...