Pure Being Before and Amidst All Experience

Our primary experience is the experience of being, the unqualified ‘I am’. Before any other experience, before we know ourselves as human, there is just pure being, unlimited and immaculate. Being precedes sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts – all that constitutes human experience. The Zen question ‘Who are you before you are born?’ is not a call for a rational answer but a prompt towards recognising our infinite being before human experience begins. Jesus’s words, “Before Abraham was, I am,” echo this recognition of eternal existence. Being, existing outside of time, remains infinite and eternal, even when it appears entwined with our human experience. The knowledge ‘I am’ is a unique experience, a portal through which we encounter our unlimited being, God’s being, the only being there is. Scrutinising ‘I am’ takes us beyond human constraints to pure, infinite being – the essence of all existence, the eternal ‘I am’.