 Hello, this is Ilchibukko. You're watching TOW Thursday with Ilchibukko on Brain Education TV. Today, I will be talking about true self versus false self. You may be wondering why there is a name false self or even true self. So true self, the concept of true self, based on your spiritual nature of yourself, there's this absolute truth existing inside of you, which is this power of great love. That is who you truly are, that is unwavering no matter what situation and condition you may be faced with around you or even within you. There's this steady, constant, confident, powerful love underneath all of those things that you may be experiencing. So that's why we can say true self. This is absolute truth about you. And I don't need to be in your living room to know whether or not you have true self. Absolutely, we are true self itself. Now, this concept of false self is that perhaps we can say ego self. Ego self is everything else except for this true self. So for example, it can be emotions, it can be all these ideas that you have that make you react certain way, or I can say preference or judgment. So I want to say like this, when you are born, you are very much pure true self. But as you continue on with your daily living, then there is a time that you may get hurt emotionally. And then what happens? True self is divided. And it tries to protect and cover so that you don't have to get hurt. This very self that covers up your true self, I want to call it false self or ego self. So in your whole life, actually, you may only know this surface self or false self that may react, that may judge towards certain people or somebody or certain things based on your experiences. In this study of Tao, we say that there are three great powers. This is all related to your spiritual nature of yourself. One is the power of great life, which is saying that you are connected to everything, the life force existing all around you and inside of you. You don't tell your heart to beat all the time, but heart is beating and everything moves with according to your intention, but your heart is beating on its own. It belongs to much, much bigger existence than you ever know. So even when you are eating an apple for your breakfast, that apple that was the energy of all the nature inside of the apple, you eat it, that nature's energy is flowing through you, and after a couple of hours, what happens, you may go to the restroom and part of you become the nature. So you are part of this great force of life with the capital L and also power of great wisdom, which is residing inside of your brain. That is also the absolute truth. So no matter what is happening around you, there is this greatest information of the universe or greatest information there exists in the world reside right here. As we live your daily life, why you exist here on earth? Have you ever thought about it before? Maybe sometimes you wonder after you do all these things that you want to do, you like to do, and then all of a sudden you feel this emptiness, or you feel all of a sudden, is this all to my life? This is when you may recognize there is something more to life. There must be. That's when you may find your truest essence of yourself. But this is not something that you can fulfill with just satisfying yourself through outward success or achievement or doing something. It is the calling from your soul or your true self. Please pay attention to me. I am right here inside of you. If you need help, definitely we can help you or I can guide you to find that self. The answer cannot be found anywhere else except for within you, with your will to go within, to face your pain or agony or even little bit of suffering. So I cheer for you, for you to have courage to look inward and to face yourself. Have courage enough to go within and get to this place of true self, great love. So how does these things like true self or even this false self may impact your life? You may not know that you are living as false self because you cannot feel it. Some indications can be the sense of being lost. This is also the good opportunity for you to search for your true self. When you find your true self, you will feel this infinite power rising from inside of you and you can have more and more power coming from inside. Also, you may feel this limitless confidence not coming from ego but genuine confidence from within you. As I met people transforming from being lost to finding true self, I can say confidently that each and every one of us can find this brightness and bring hope to where you are and even create and spread this beautiful, powerful, confident, loving energy to many people around you. I hope you enjoy this talk about true self and false self. Thank you for watching Tower Thursday with Ilchibukko on Brain Education TV. Next time, I will guide you to do meditation for feeling your true self. Thank you. See you soon.