The tethered self
is a construct from birth,
embellished by the surroundings.
It is integrated into your desires, you see.
Your agency.
The way you act and be.
It’s quite ephemeral, ever-changing
Because it mirrors itself,
in its surroundings.
A hyper reflection in the Others
Mentalising, searching, comparing, and sizing.
Like a reflection inside a mirror ball, the center tries to save the position in memory; in a language of neural mechanics, it tries to remember the reflective bias.
You see them.
And you see yourself
In the dream
In dreams, they walk,
The archetypes,
friends and foes alike.
This identity,
We might call it that.
It is quite made up,
it’s just like a tendency.
A set of patterns, a ball of yarn.
Its strings
constantly pulled, connected, integrated to:
symbols
Shibboleths
The mother
The father
And yourself,
Some call it the ego,
The mirror self.
Remember, even if we partition a function of the mind, it is just to illustrate something. To create a limit of something. To create a thing. It is still a part of you. For example, we can partition/create the grasping self/the grasping ego. That function will say: I have this body with these boundaries – I own these actions, they are mine, I have these identities, they are a part of me. And we can identify with/attach to a nation, a group, a gender, a cause, etc. And it is very fluent. When you realize this, you can detach and reattach.
Your desire
gives you fire.
Your fear
defends it.
Locks it in and
amends it.
When you realize this,
The natural state.
Beyond attraction, fear,
love and hate –
you are free
to be
a man.
In ancient times, the tree of the self grew and expanded. And it collected material, ideas, patterns, neural estate, and culture.
Then, our self, shattered, integrated into the mammal tribes.
Quite effective, of course, or else your body wouldn’t be in this now.
Generation after generation of skewed perspectives.
We, the sufferers, carry the painful shards of the broken self in ourselves.
Some saw the singularity of Nothing – as something else. They called it the Self, God, society, or all.
But it was a position from many voices, your own doing and your choices.
Some say it exists, and some say it does not.
But that is just words, and words are constructed to grasp food, fuel, mates, all the things, all actions of things, attributes, and groupings of all the things, attributes, and actions. Words are there to grasp the inner field of thoughts and feelings – your agency and inner workings collapse into symbolic language, resolved to be understood by yourself and another.
The seers who saw were so relieved to realize this that they told everyone: You can just be you, and perhaps not even that!
People misunderstood and wrote sutras after sutras, and the prophets cried – “God is the other, our father and mother” —in embroidered misinterpretations.
You see, the true seers and the sages were in a state of knowing, in unknowing. They had a problem with communicating these ideas. The problem with distribution, establishment, and sowing is that words are localities in time and space and must be understood to be correctly distributed. The person who realized spoke from their cultural standpoint, and their words were resolved into the recipients with the same cultural knowledge but with their subjective position. And every culture is a substrate, and there are sub-substrates and groupings in every culture.
So yes, the seers and sages – perhaps they were just as confused as you and me and detached from the web of their confusion as we did from our mother as a child. And they could see themselves more clearly. And that self-realization is just natural. The natural state. Nothing holy, no Gods, no texts. Just you.