Pointless waste of time, better to be a lay Buddhist and focus on getting shit done, there is no true and essential self I’d say instead of being an ascetic, realize the existence of the hedonic treadmill, if you don’t keep pace satisfying desires you’ll fall on your face, likewise if you try and run you’ll burn out and fail to keep pace, some suffering in life is inevitable

It's a constantly shifting unstable swarm of electrons bouncing around

I am a white European man.

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>>25624381 True

>>25624413 what does this mean? you have brown race but you identify with white?

>>25624420 It means you should go back to pozznr.

The "true self" cannot exist without a connection to a collective. People who consider themselves "unique" and purely "an individual" don't know what they're talking about because the specific time, place, and culture you are born into, the genes you have, and the technology and resources available already place constraints on the self. In Iceland, hakarl (piss-flavored, fermented shark meat) is considered a delicacy. It is near-universally hated, but locals like it because they acquired a taste for it. And they acquired the taste for it because they used to have more limited food options, and Greenland shark meat was available to them. How is our current culture structured? Almost all information on the internet is filtered through Google, and the large media corporations all have similar financial interests and have stocks which are largely owned by the same shareholders. Are your tastes truly your own when "taste" is something which can be heavily influenced by external forces? Maybe to a degree, but certainly not entirely. And to the degree that they are "unique" to you, how much of that is genetics?

>>25624998 Your "true self" exists in relation to, and as a subsidiary part of a High Culture. And High Cultures exist in relation to, and as a subsidiary part of an ultimate reality. In conclusion: I'm a White Ass Nigga Going Hard As Fuck.