Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 9: What is the True Me?

Recorded March 21, 2026.Zen master Wu-tsu used a popular ghost tale, like a popular movie or novel of his time, to explore the intimate question of Identity: “Who am I?” We move through our days like leaves blown about by an un-known wind. But who is it happening to? Who is doing it? Who is the victim? Who’s in the driver’s seat? Shouldn’t we know? What could be more essential—or practical—than being able to say who we are? Who hears sounds with the ears, sees colors with the eyes, eats and sleeps, grieves and worries, suffers aging and its manifold indignities? Maybe peace—at least a greater degree of it—lies in looking into this. Who or what are we talking about when we say or think, “I” or “me”? And how is it that we don’t know? Isn’t that rather astonishing that we don’t know who we are? How can that possibly be? Really where and what is this “I” I’m so concerned about, anyway?Let’s see how this one goes!Read Roshi Rafe Martin's latest book:  Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home To What Zen is Really All About.  Available from Amazon , Sumeru Books, and Barnes & Noble Online.Photo of Smiling Buddha, Lung-men Caves, China, by Rafe Martin 2006Books by Roshi Rafe MartinTalks on YouTubeMore information at endlesspathzen.org