Contemplating self

Interestingly enough we rarely contemplate certain conditions of our existence. The obvious reason:  we are mortal beings and we try to preserve ourselves. But we do not fear just death. We find uneasy confronting our very selves.

Have you ever thought about your own consciousness as an artificial, existing only in your own mind concept? Which has started emerging gradually when you were a small child? Which has been changing ever since?

Although we think we are who we are (whatever it means) we are different from whom we were a year, a month or a day ago. Who we are at any given moment depends from many factors including things like: where we are, with whom and what we are doing. Even what we have eaten matters.

That is a source of our loneliness – our idea of ourselves lives in our own minds and we are only able to share just a part of it with other people – often in a vague manner.

Often we are able to spot nervous attempts of our minds to do something, to think about something during meditation.

The phenomenon of experiencing our own existence is the source of our culture with all our myths and beliefs; it is a reason for our civilisation and is a source of our personal dramas.  

MG