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The purport of the word “self” goes beyond our conventional notion of self, it means both material and immaterial self. The knowledge of existence of “self” depends on how we perceive things and the
debate has been as old as mountains throughout human existence. Philosophers
since antiquity have been searching across the valleys of obscurity to trace
the abstract self. The bone of contention has been the idea of an independent
self, which never existed and humans have been clinging to the “notion of
fixation” and “self” which blinded human intelligence of knowing true self.
John Locke denied the change of personal identity with the change of substance
(material) but considers consciousness as an inseparable part of self. To him,
consciousness is not the whole, but a pivotal part of what is called the person.
It is the perception which is to the person what light is to the eyes. To
perceive what is being perceiving and perceived.

To Buddha, existence is ephemeral and therefore the world is empty of self. All
beings are subject to continuous change, death and decay, they are “becoming”
continuously. He thought self is made up of five distinct parts, feeling,
corporeality, consciousness, perception and mental formations. Our perceptions
of things are our knowledge of something which is perceived through our sensory
channels and is far from reliability since our perceptions are being sallied by
the illusions of self. It is not a representational approach but the fact is
that what we perceive through our conscious experience is an illusion, not the
reality. Our perceptions are frozen by the dirt of desire, attachment and
ignorance. On contrary, the solipsistic viewpoints state, that things exist
only because we perceive them and without the perception nothing exists own its
own. Perception precedes existence which also attacks the central idea of
existentialism. But to me, if it be the truth, does New York exist to someone
who has never seen it? It won’t exist but the reality is not true. New York
exists regardless of seen by my eyes or not.

When the western philosophers proposed the logic, based on the law of “Excluded
Middle”, i.e. either that the glass is true or not true. Nagarjuna, who is to
Buddha what Plato is to Socrates and Mencius to Confucius, taught the concept
of “Dependent Arising”. Which says that the glass is neither true nor false,
the Doctrine of Middle Path. The concept bespeaks, neither everything is
self-existent nor non-existent. It exists as we perceive them, but it is
non-existent or empty as we deconstruct the matter. For instance, the tree is
there, it is arising as we see but it has no prowess of arising itself without
sunlight, water and soil. Likewise, self exist dependently.

Therefore, everything in this world is like the reflection in the mirror, one
who realizes that the reflection is devoid of self-existence, is realizing the
higher truth. Thus, self is constructed, not a concrete phenomenon. It is an
inalienable part of the whole. It is not self-existent as even protons are not
independent.



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