The Self

[Mellowmarsh]

The Self is known, but never seen.

[Monster Energy]

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[Ajay0]

The Self, our Being, is awareness.

Thoughts and feelings comes and goes, but awareness remains constant always. 

The attributes of Self or Awareness is peace, bliss and contentment.

Greatest mystery is that we get entangled in our thoughts and emotions in the pursuit of pleasure forgetting the Self, and inadvertently create a nightmarish cocoon of psychological suffering for ourselves.

It is like begging for scraps and pennies while sitting on a treasure chest and ignorant of the same due to amnesia.

Some people arrive at the knowledge of the Self intuitively, while others come to the same through spiritual philosophies and authentic religious methodologies.

Some unfortunates however never learn of their own Self during their lifetimes though it is the closest to them. 

Edited yesterday at 09:38 AM by Ajay0

[Mellowmarsh]

Self-consciousness is a biological tool used for physical survival, but humans turn it into a false, permanent identity.

When the illusion of the self drops away, the physical body simply functions on its own without interference.
 

Animals are luckier than humans because they were not artificially conditioned to believe they are separate from all that is naturally being. 

Humans “suffered” as their nature split off as and through this artificial conception believed to be real.

But it wasn’t all doom and gloom because the same mechanism that was able to split was able to repair the breach. Where wholesomeness was restored, and suffering was known to be no longer suffered by anyone, and there was known to be just sensation sensed as coming and going, bubbling up and dissolving.  All just thoughts flowing uninvited lingering for a while then completely disappearing as there was nowhere to land, or belong to.