I might've figured out why there is an identity.

[Pouya]

Imagine a very intelligent dog, who can imagine stuff. The dog needs an owner, but he doesn't have one. So he makes up a human owner out of no where to keep himself safe.

The dog is the body and the owner is the mind.

Natural evolution developed an animal that can imagine an owner, an identity for itself. If the body thinks it is a human/ego it can protect itself much more efficiently. It can have conceptual fears, beliefs and ideas about everything and eventually the animal can create groups and tribes with the conceptual symbolic ideas, which improves the survival of its kind much further.

Identity is the product of the body as a whole. You (the false one) are not owning a body, the body owns you. The body has an identity, not the other way around.

So it's a huge complex infinitely layered dream and what you actually are, is the dream itself dreaming the dream, and within that you imagine you are an idenitity, created upon a body capable enough to handle it, living within a relatively consistant law based imaginary universe. 

What do you think? Am I full of shit? 

Edited September 5, 2019 by Pouya

[MuddyBoots]

Hi Pouya, no s***, I agree we're an experiment of the universe's evolution for a survival strategy, and that this is complex so my understanding is limited. Our physical brain can reflect back on itself in a feedback loop to create self-images such as the image or feeling of a separate 'self'. This is shown in our use of nonsensical words like 'myself' and 'my ego', as if there's another little me or homunculus behind the self or ego, owning that. I don't see the need to get rid of this self or disparage it, but to use the spiritual practice to see it clearly, and its true place within the wider context of unity (in which there's no separation into body and mind).

Edited September 5, 2019 by MuddyBoots
Clarification & grammar.