 Now My good friend sim asked me a very difficult question a very fucking difficult question I'm gonna attempt to answer in this video. He said Where in there can you find your true self? Where can one find his true self? Well before I answer this question, I think we need to be very clear about what We are going to categorize the true self what we're gonna define as a true self on one hand. We have the self or the idea That our true self is Who we were Before the corruption of societal ideas Who we are at the core? What our natural affinity is to send things but this self here is often shaped still by the events our lives by our parents by our upbringing by Egoic forms By egoic influences. This is the egoic self who we perceive ourselves to be the problem with the egoic self is that it is malleable Who I think I am now my version of myself Can be entirely and completely different to who I think I am in 10 years and it's often different to who I think I was 10 years ago my ideas change My thinking patterns change the variety of other things change These things change because the egoic self is malleable as we said before Now We can't have the egoic self as the grounds or as the basis of the true self because it is too volatile It can be changed by small things if I was brought brought up by Religious parents by Christian parents in Europe, I will be a completely different person to if I was brought up by Islamic parents in Pakistan These two variables the religion and the location can change Your idea of yourself completely So how can we have the true self be something that's so volatile so easily changed by one or two variables? The things that happen in our life that determine our egoic self the events are not in our control So who we become or who our ego believes we are Cannot be our true self. It's doing our control Our true self needs to be something that's consistent something that's constant Something that was has been there since we were born and the only thing I can think of and a lot of Eastern philosophers is Our relationship with awareness our relationship with consciousness itself Our consciousness is simply our relationship with life our subjective experience The field this is the only thing that's there from the time that you are a baby To now that you're an adult the physical form changes Every cell in your body changes Your organs get more complex your brain gets more complex Everything about you besides the fact that you think you're the same person changes Even your thoughts change each time you think about them your memories Your brain changes itself We've all heard about neuroplasticity So consciousness or your Relationship with awareness is the only thing that change is that only that's consistent. That's constant Now you might bring greater awareness to your consciousness That makes any sense awareness being aware of itself But that doesn't mean that it wasn't there. You might stop paying more attention to it, but it was always there Since you're born and this is where the true self can lie because in your relationship with awareness You can find out who you truly are once All the egoic Forms of your identity are stripped away And Meditation is a very good process for this because meditation is the only process in which it's still exhaling ourselves outwards You are observed inwards It's a very special process. I'm sure sim can Tell you all about it. He's done a lot of these retreats where he goes away and just meditates all day so when you meditate you get closer to your true self and After maybe a couple years meditation, you might actually find out who your true self is Or what your true self is? But what I'm gonna hint at in this video. I'm gonna do that is that your true self is Found through your relationship with awareness So to try investigate that and you'll get closer to finding your true self and going through egoic forms Anyway, that's the video guys. I hope I Somewhere answer that question If you like that, make sure you like subscribe comment or a good share. Let's discuss down the bottom So, who are you truly? Who is your true self? peace