What Is It To Find "ones True Self"

[Lorcan]

What is it to discover yourself?

What are you discovering? 

Charachter traits? Strenghts? Weaknesses?

I am having trouble grasping this concept.

Someone please help me on this.

[werlight]

8 minutes ago, Lorcan said:

What is it to discover yourself?

What are you discovering? 

Charachter traits? Strenghts? Weaknesses?

I am having trouble grasping this concept.

Someone please help me on this.

@Lorcan 

Who you are (in essence) is dificult to express with words.

Nothing I can write can describe the beauty that you are. It needs to be experienced. It is meant to be discovered. But If I had to put it in words this is what I would say:

You are pure awareness, pure love and pure light, eternal, divine and one with everything and everyone. We are one with all that IS.

It is called enlightenment because when you experience who you are you become Pure Light. You experience your deepes Self. 

Becoming aware of the beauty and greatness that you are is so beautiful that an entire universe was created just so that we could experience it. This is how special it is.

[Leo Gura]

@Lorcan You should make a distinction between your true self as a persona versus your existential True Self.

The persona isn't really true. It's just true relative to a dysfunctional and misguided persona. Which is an improvement, but far from where you can ultimately develop to. The "true" persona will include things like discovering your authentic character traits, strengths, and weaknesses. This is useful, but not the end of ultimate achievement.

The existential True Self is what @werlight is talking about above. It's the ultimate achievement. It's what you ACTUALLY metaphysically are.

[Lorcan]

Hmm, thank you.

[SkyPanther]

23 hours ago, Lorcan said:

What is it to discover yourself?

What are you discovering? 

Charachter traits? Strenghts? Weaknesses?

I am having trouble grasping this concept.

Someone please help me on this.

I like how Alan Watts and Albert Einstein put it, (though the Buddha did a great job as well, it's just less accessible in this day and age):

 

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“It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually—if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning—you’re not something that’s a result of the big bang. You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as—Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so—I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I’m that, too. But we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it. ” - Alan Watts

All of existence is existence/the cosmos. Including you and I, and everything else. The illusion is that most think they are an "I".

Here is the same mindset from Albert Einstein:

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

Source: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/11/delusion.html