So is this how you already see things or are you trying to convince yourself that this is true?

Not sure, though its a good question. I can think my way into, and see that it makes sense, but its not how I experience reality moment to moment, no. I very much subscribe to “form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form, form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form” of the Prajana Paramita Sutra, and I think form is really only a convenient shortcut for us, a sort of after-image of reality that’s right often enough that we don’t really notice when its wrong.

I also think that our form is influenced by the day we are born. Its like we are a snapshot of what was going on in the galaxy at the time. That is the basis of astrology and numerology.

Yeah, that makes a kind of sense. We absorb life so quickly when we’re young that the time/space we’re born into and what follows in the first few months can certainly have a lasting impression on us. And there’s no reason to assume that the forces that move the planet and the galaxies around wouldn’t have some effect on us as well.

So to me its not hard to accept that my nature is that I am energy and that my form is not really me. Some aspect of me is permanent and its not my form.

I also think that our form is influenced by the day we are born. Its like we are a snapshot of what was going on in the galaxy at the time. That is the basis of astrology and numerology.