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Originally Posted by Erock  I think by "self-aware" Steve just meant that he is aware of his fake self (ego, mind, body, ex.). He even says his true identity is that he is "aware," which I would interpret as him saying his true self is the awareness.
I agree with you that the perceived cannot be the perceiver, and anything that we are aware of is not us. We are aware of the world, our bodies, our thoughts, ex, therefore none of this is the real self. The real self cannot know itself, because the act of knowing something means that it is unreal.
Tricky stuff, but fun to talk about
Erock |
I have trouble with the "true self" being awareness alone. I don't think there is awareness be itself. Pure awareness would not be able to experience anything on it's own - it's exsits in relationship to of which we can be aware. I know a lot of writings say that there is a true self that is the watcher or something like that. This puts the image in us that makes us think there is something seperate from everything else. That is our mind catagorizing everything and taking the whole apart and defining things still. It makes more sense to realize that awareness and that which we are aware of are mutually arising. That which is seen by the seer happen at the same time and never alone - so they are a whole - not seperate parts that has an object and an experiencer that is aware of that. If you try to find the seer alone, can you really find it?