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Who Are You?

ManSinha

ManSinha

Well-Known Member
atanu said:
Whatever is not yours, let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term welfare & happiness.

— MN 22

You first need to know who you are and what is yours to be able to let go of what is not your’s.

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The neti neti process IS letting go of all that is not you.
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Again - from Kabir

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Scott C.

Scott C.

Just one guy
SalixIncendium said:
In Vedanta, or more specifically jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta, there is a process called neti neti which is a Sanskrit term meaning 'not this, not this.' It is an analysis of what one truly is through the process of negation. In essence, anything one can observe is not who they are in their true nature. I can observe my breathing, therefore I am not my breathing. I can observe my thoughts, therefore I am not my thoughts. I can observe my body, therefore I am not my body. And so on.

In your simplest, most basic, and truest form, who are you?
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I like your question. I am an intelligence, inhabiting an observable mind and body.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
SalixIncendium said:
In Vedanta, or more specifically jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta, there is a process called neti neti which is a Sanskrit term meaning 'not this, not this.' It is an analysis of what one truly is through the process of negation. In essence, anything one can observe is not who they are in their true nature. I can observe my breathing, therefore I am not my breathing. I can observe my thoughts, therefore I am not my thoughts. I can observe my body, therefore I am not my body. And so on.

In your simplest, most basic, and truest form, who are you?
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I am i... Nothing more, nothing less.

Woman, wife, lover, mother. Anything else is just incidental
 
David T

David T

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
SalixIncendium said:
In Vedanta, or more specifically jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta, there is a process called neti neti which is a Sanskrit term meaning 'not this, not this.' It is an analysis of what one truly is through the process of negation. In essence, anything one can observe is not who they are in their true nature. I can observe my breathing, therefore I am not my breathing. I can observe my thoughts, therefore I am not my thoughts. I can observe my body, therefore I am not my body. And so on.

In your simplest, most basic, and truest form, who are you?
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Although and me.... At the same time the idiot.
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Spirit of Light

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
SalixIncendium said:
In Vedanta, or more specifically jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta, there is a process called neti neti which is a Sanskrit term meaning 'not this, not this.' It is an analysis of what one truly is through the process of negation. In essence, anything one can observe is not who they are in their true nature. I can observe my breathing, therefore I am not my breathing. I can observe my thoughts, therefore I am not my thoughts. I can observe my body, therefore I am not my body. And so on.

In your simplest, most basic, and truest form, who are you?
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To answer your question is actually a bit difficult because I have not yet seen the purest form of existence that can be obtained. But to give one answer, it would be pure consciousness (non-physical life) But i can be wrong on this.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Jos said:
How can one experience this Self? Also, isn't it kinda strange that a person has to go through an experience in order to find their True Self?
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I woudn't know. The sages say it's because of years and years and lifetimes of meditation, and resolving karmas over many lifetimes. They also claim it's not an experience at all. But it is the primary ultimate goal in Hinduism, as the result is moksha.

Deep deep deep meditation.
 
Diamond

Diamond

Member
JJ50 said:
And your definition of a 'soul' is?
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Your soul gives your body life,it is your essence, it's your personality, intellect ,happy,. sad,,your behaviors,,anger,desire,giving and receiver love,and the immortal part of you
 
osgart

osgart

Nothing my eye, Something for sure
Every time i try to negate the 'me' , it crops up that i forgot something. That which i forgot, beckons to be.

Proof i am a me:

I get offended sometimes. I find no separateness from what i love, and hate.

For me, me is inescapable. Probably because i have so much invested in the concept of me. I think not. I think it because there really is a unified whole of being. Perhaps experience can be divided up, but the experiencer always crops up.

The corpus callosum i think, unifies experience between the left and right hemisphere. But that is merely experience. The experiencer losing his/her corpus callosum, has much trouble with two separate experiences, but i am quite sure there is a me with two separate experiences in this case.
 
Evangelicalhumanist

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Vinayaka said:
That which is beyond mind, beyond body, beyond personality, beyond ego.
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And I claim the exact opposite...that I am all of those things, mind, body, personality, ego, experience past and present, hopes, desires, and more.

Further, I claim that "who I am" is ephemeral, as all of those things change from moment to moment, but that there is continuity of the "I' living from moment to moment through all the changes. And I will continue thus until the moment of my death, and then there will be no "I."
 
David T

David T

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
joe1776 said:
When playing the guitar left-handed does the little finger strum the bass?:mad:
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Its strung and designed left handed so the saddle is sloped appropriately for intonation. Low E on top high E on bottom and the saddle sloped for proper intonation. More critical on acoustics. Electric guitars one just has to adjust the saddle is all by turning screws. Acoustics no such luck.
 
J

Jos

Well-Known Member
SalixIncendium said:
In Vedanta, or more specifically jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta, there is a process called neti neti which is a Sanskrit term meaning 'not this, not this.' It is an analysis of what one truly is through the process of negation. In essence, anything one can observe is not who they are in their true nature. I can observe my breathing, therefore I am not my breathing. I can observe my thoughts, therefore I am not my thoughts. I can observe my body, therefore I am not my body. And so on.

In your simplest, most basic, and truest form, who are you?
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Actually thinking it over, I think 'I' can be defined as the totality or accumulation of one's memories and experiences as one goes throughout life therefore IMO there is no fixed or core 'I' since 'I' am always changing as my memories and experiences change. That definition might seem a bit materialistic but as far as I'm aware I have no good reason to think that existence goes beyond the material.
 
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