Who Are You?

[ragolp]

An answer may be that you are your brain. Notice that it is your  brain. Who is you! You may say, "I'm me." Whatever that is, is a thought. If you say, "Yes I am my thoughts, what I think is what I know, everything from the past shapes who I am and my past exists in thought so I am my thoughts." So if you were to stop thinking you would cease to exist. However you still exist without thoughts. When you experience presence you experience periods of no mind, that's what it means to be present! So again, we are stuck with this question of who you are? The last one answer may reveal itself here, the common statement of, "I am my body, I can feel myself. Everything on me is me." Which part of you is you? Can you locate yourself anymore? If you identify with a soul it's not like that's anything of physical substance. You feel everywhere yet nowhere that's what consciousness is! Consciousness is synonymous with awareness, nothing, infinity, non-duality, it's all the same thing! You can't find yourself. How could you?  So if you aren't your body, your thoughts, your brain then what are you?

 

Our ego creates a false sense of self that believes there is an outside world and an inside world we call ourselves I. For the ego to exist, it must believe it has a limit, for it would not be "itself" if it were everything. In truth, you do not exist. The thing you think you are is in fact not you. So if you aren't this limited entity you identify with, what could you possibly be? Well if you cannot locate yourself, perhaps it is because you are nowhere, yet everywhere. You haven't met yourself yet; that is, your true essence. One big mistake humanity made was believing they must find God because if they realized they were already God, why would they need to search for something they already had?

[Dodo]

I am the screen of being and the movie is about a "real human" living "real life". 

[Nahm]

@ragolp what is a who. Who is a what. Maybe humanity has known this for a while....

He was clever using the elephant, and the ‘Mayor’. 

[star ark]

I believe our ego is language, we had to create language at some point in time, and that pursuit created the internal monologue. We have evolved for billions of years, the language and internal voice was the biggest evolutionary change and it came virtually in an instant. We are fooled by our thoughts because for millions of years we had none in the modern sense and suddenly our entire species is neurotic and talking in their heads. We are not the thoughts, we are instinctively hating these thoughts in our heads, but they are also a blessing that allows precise communication and advancement for the species. We need to meditate or quiet the internal voice but still utilize it too.

Of course this is just my whack theory lol 

[SOUL]

Welp, you have all the dogmatic rhetoric, you can join the club.

Edited January 1, 2018 by SOUL

[ragolp]

@star ark I agree with what you are saying. Our minds have proven to be very destructive but also very productive and effective. Having the capability to communicate and think is amazing. Through meditation we can quiet the mind and direct our attention in a clear and concise manner. 

[jse]

3 hours ago, ragolp said:

Who Are You?

A somewhat easier question:

          What am I not?