22 Oct IAWIA

“I am what I am.” — God, Exodus 3:14, The Bible

According to the Bible, Moses encountered a “burning bush” whose flames were not devouring its branches.

The burning bush was the manifestation of God; everchanging and eternal.

Moses asked God: “What is your name?” God said (depending on translation): “I am who I am” or “I will be what I will be”.

In the now, God manifests as a “who”. In the time after (and presumably before) the now, God is a “what”.

Encapsulating all times, we can paraphrase God: “I am what I am”.

In the now, God is a nameless “who”, implying God is not one person/thing but every thing.

As “what”, God is an unspecified transcendental potential of infinite manifestations.

God also self-identifies as “I am”; as being, not a being.

God is flow of the Everything.

“I am what I am” as an acronym (IAWIA) can be pronounced two ways:

“I WHY” (first vowel pronounced and second vowel silent).

“A-WAY” (first vowel silent and second vowel pronounced).

I WHY

Why do I exist?

The etymology of the word “universe” is “all things turned into one”; hence, I am the universe.

To ask why I exist is to ask why does the universe exist.

Reasons/explanations imply cause (a thing) and effect (another thing) are independent things.

However, the independence of things is illusionary; all things are interdependent as the “universe” is “all things turned into one”.

Simply, the universe just is.

A WAY

The written word for God is YHWH which may be pronounced as “A WAY”.

“A WAY” can be likened to the Tao (“the Way”), suggesting common revelations in Western and Eastern thought.

The Way is the underlying natural order of the universe, an eternal and ineffable force that flows through all things.

The Way is a nameless cosmic force that binds and releases all things; the energy of action and existence.

Aligning oneself with “A WAY”, one realizes harmony and balance; as all the pieces of the universe come together as one peace.