Seems fairly evident to me that the definition of Self most citizens of developed nations are operating from is harmful.
At best, a marketing device. At worst, something more sinister.
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Your entire world is you.
You, you, you.
Solipsism is both real and true - in YOUR world.
This may not be the only world, but it's the only world you know.
If you put your self inside some tiny definitional space inside your world, then that's a cage. One you made, and guard.
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Outside this cage, there is much richness, much liveliness, much energy, that you can readily partake in.
It is to be fully and authentically yourself to be what, from a certain, blinkered perspective, is not you at all.
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That's not to say what is commonly regarded as your body and your interests and so on will get much attention from "outside".
It's not to say you aren't responsible for those things, too.
Just that they are a very faint part of your reality.
Personal disclosure: I am not very good at dissolving this cage. I spend a lot of time locked down and behind bars, of my own volition.
But spending any amount of time outside at all will show you how much you are robbing yourself, creates the drive towards freedom.
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I think it's very easy to turn this into some sort of esoteric, philosophical point. It's not about concepts.
It's that the sense of self you are conditioned to inhabit is irreal nonsense, and totally possible to discard, for your own betterment.
Without losing anything at all.
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