I am
“I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.” There are so many complex ideas that can be pulled out of this Buddhist notion — about self and other. The first — I am. I am is the acknowledgement of our existence. Then the idea that in considering someone else, not just thinking of them, but judging, one in fact only sees oneself. And that those thoughts become who and what you are. You are what you think. And then the self repeating and infinite notion that I am what I am. And the implication that if you are also just as you are, and not thinking about what I am, then you also can be the truth of sat nam (I am. I am truth.)
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Yayoi Kusama paints “Infinity Net” paintings that consider the infinitely repeating questions of self, other, inextricably intertwined for perpetuity. The knowing and being undulating and evolving and flowing backward and forward through time.
