Introduction by Jan Kersschot
As a baby of say three weeks old, we don’t yet have any sense of “I”.
There is no identification with the person yet.
We are yet to be influenced by the programs of our parents and by the customs of the society in which we will grow up.
We have no sense of space or time. There is just a white screen filled with images.
Hunger, thirst, crying, eating, sleeping, all of those just appear and disappear.
We don’t ask ourselves any questions yet.
There is only pure awareness. We are pure openness without any divisions or ratings.
There are no comments or any evaluation scales yet.
We are not programmed yet by education or religion. What does that mean?
It means that there is a “seeing” without interfering, without judging, without expectations.
There is no central character yet who claims to be the decider or the thinker or the doer.
There is only a “witnessing” without thinking in terms of me and the others, without relating things to our past or future.
We have no idea about time or space yet. We don’t know yet that we are a little boy or girl with a certain identity or nationality.
We don’t realise we’re lying in a bed in a room. We don’t feel locked up in a body yet. We don’t know about our nationality or sex.
We don’t believe to be limited to this body we see in the mirror. There are no borders yet. No limits, no inner voice, no expectations.
There is no ego on the stage yet who believes he or she has to meet certain standards or follow certain rules.
As a newborn, our computer hasn’t been programmed yet – or the programs which are there are not activated yet.
There is just pure being. Just is-ness. Just beingness.