The nuances of using the term "Self" and True Self"

[Maya_0]

People like to use the word "Self" and "True Self" to conceptualize  Ultimate Reality. They like to point out that all this phenomena experienced before you is "who we truly are". 

But Ultimate Reality is not anything at all. It can't be conceptualized by something. So why are we using the word "Self". There's nothing (no-thing) there to call it anything. It makes more sense semantically to name it in terms of what it's not (e.g  not self). But I see many people conceptualizing it as Self. 

 

Edited November 25, 2019 by Maya_0

[Forestluv]

Why surrender an absolute for a relative? Absolute includes both relative opposites.  Calling absolute Truth “not truth” is misleading. Absolute Truth cannot get reduced to the opposite of a relative because it is absolute. Absolute Truth is both “truth” and “not truth”. Self is both “self” and “not self”.

 

[Nahm]

You can call me a penguin if ya like. 

[Leo Gura]

@Maya_0 It is YOU! You are God.

[WelcometoReality]

@Maya_0 How about the ever-present thingamajig?

 

[Eu Sint]

It’s a self without no self.