Beyond Personality...

​I was reading Nisargadatta Maharaj last night. He was a student of Ramana Maharshi and teacher to Ramesh Balsekar, all in the lineage of Advaita Vedanta, or the path of non-duality. Nisagardatta's seminal work is the book 'I Am That'. The insight that captured my attention last night was the recognition that our personality only exists within time, and time only exists in the past or the future. In other words, when you are totally present in the Now, you are outside time; you are timeless and eternal, and you are not bound by or affected your personality, preferences and prejudices. Try it...as you drop totally and completely into this eternal moment of Now, it is impossible to connect to the moment that just passed or anticipate the moment yet to arrive...because when fully present, there is no mind, there is only pure experiencing the 'what is'. Without the affects of mind, there is no personality, in the sense of a collection of memories and life experiences carried forward from the past and projected on the future. How liberating!