30 Jun Kotodama 134

IAWIA

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

According to the Bible, Moses was tending his flock when he encountered a “burning bush” whose flames were not devouring its branches.

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

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; an unspecified entity, as God is every thing.

In the time after the now, God is undifferentiated potential, a what.

Encompassing the now (“I am…”) and after the now (“I will be what…”), we can paraphrase God: “I am what I am”.

God appears as ever-changing in the now, but is eternal and unchanged.

God also simply identifies as “I am”; implying being, not a being.

God is the everything flowing.

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

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

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

I WHY

Why do I exist?

There is no I or why; no reasons or explanations.

“I” implies objectification; I, the self, and all that is not the self.

“Why” implies causality; one thing affecting another.

Yet, there are no independent things; no beings, just being.

Simply, I am because I am.

A WAY

In the Bible, the written word for God is YHWH.

With no consensus as to its pronunciation, YHWH may have been pronounced as “A WAY”.

God (“A WAY”) is like the Tao (“The Way”).

The Way is the ineffable and eternal energy that flows through all things; bringing all things into harmony, as all the pieces of the universe come together as one peace.