Who are you? (Challenging your fixed self)

This twelve minute video shares how our sense of self, our personal fixed essence, is an illusion. He gives a more ideal way to see there is no soul that everything and experiences are drawn to and defines. Rather, we are not who we are without the sum of our parts.


Enjoy.

I thought I had seen this before, but it turns out that it wasn't me after all.

That is an odd video. I totally disagree. I see myself as creating my entire self into the vessel of heart, mind, and will that i already am. My heart, mind, and will of one vessel is entirely mine and i have those three dynamic capacities. Experience is an everflowing river of dynamic changes, yet i choose everyday how these things of experience mean to me. So experience is a neverending process, i lose nothing. My vessel has, temporal, permanent, and often forever choices of heart. Even losing all my memories i will still have the vessel and i am willing to bet that my heart would end up being very much the same as i was before losing the memories.

I do not see freedom in the video's interpretation of being. Exercising myself his way i feel a total sense of loss. Like driftwood tossed about in an everchanging sea. Only the driftwood has no permanency of being.

Then i realize i cant escape the rudiments of my vessel, im still me, still have my three components, and i still have all my convictions, and everything i love never left me. The experiences are not me, i am the experiencer.

So anyway the vessel is the canvas and life is the paint, and my paintbrush is how i choose to be affected.

Asking this. I left highschool.

the "Self" is not what is you, because the body change all the time, it is not solid as you "see it" it is only a refelection of your thoughts Have you noticed that when you are sad your body look tired, but when you are happy your body look fresh? is it the same body? I would say no.

Is thought you? No thought are always changing, it is not solid.
When you are born you have one body but when you die at old age your body( Cells) has all been changed during your lifetime many many times. So can it be you or "self"?

You are only living in the moment you are aware of right now, because the next moment is different then what it was.

And the big question, is the body that we think of as Self the only you in existance? can it be that "you" exist in different dimensions?