Its not about me at all !!!

This has got to be the biggest irony of Life of them all.

The key to Life is about the world not the self.

It remains unproven but the self cannot contruct the self.

A set can be created with a reference to itself as the only member. e.g. A = {A} but this presupposes set theory. Thus if A is a set, but it presupposes set theory, then A is not really constructing itself. To truely construct itself it would need to construct set theory using only itself. It is intuitively obvious, but how is this to be proven?

[It is clear here that what was being examined earlier in the blog didn't distinguish between "type" construction and "token" construction. Given set theory one can construct indefinite sets including self-reference. This is "token" construction. "Type" construction however would be the calculus required to define set theory.]

What remains to be proven is that any system e.g. set theory cannot be the complete foundations of itself.

It means that meditating in a room one will not find the self. It means that living Life one will find the self. This is often confused to mean living "my" life... but that is a contradiction. Life belongs to no-one. It is the foundation of self.

As a child I was fascinated by the thought that I am someone else to other people and I began a project to try and see myself "objectively" like other people see me.

What I was wrong about was that everyone sees everyone differently so there is no objective way of looking at oneself. As a child however one may be forgiven for thinking that there is an objective way because we are judged "absolutely" by the authorities of our parents, schools and law. Surely it is argued "they" must see us the same way and truthfully. Taken a long time to realise but no - we have no single or correct "look" : beauty really is only in the eye of the beholder.

Something of a destabalisation then to find that we are like a reflection in a broken mirror - a million things to a million people. What we grasp for is the true me?

Well that question ends when we realise that we are not "object". Indeed nothing is "object". The essence of respect is to see things as "subject". An apple is a million things to a million people - what is a true apple? There is no true apple.

So we have no choice but to Live, to shine outwards into the world because there is no room in here to hide the lamp.

By way of warning this is not a reissuing of the Nike slogan. The irony of the slogan "Just Do It" is that it is correct, but what they really mean is "Buy Nike products and then do it". Actually we don't need Nike products. The slogan is English and has nothing to do with Nike. Just do it means what it says - just do it and forget Nike and every other distraction that pertains to ourselves. Does it matter what we look like to ourselves? It only matters what we look like to other people - and if making them happy involves us wearing Nike then we can do it, but its easier to educate them not to care.

If anything the self is like a mirror reflecting the world. And it is exactly because a mirror doesn't look like anything that it can take on the appearance of the world around it. The mirror becomes hidden in the very act of reflection! This is how Heideggar, Hui Neng and Lao Zi have talked about the self. When death strikes it is like a mirror shattering and the reflections are broken, but in the mirror world nothing actually breaks! Borrowing from Guilbert Ryle there is a category mistake in thinking that the "self" belongs to the world. It is like the mirror trying to reflect itself. It is like the Self-Reference issue in this blog: something being its own foundation. The world taken one way is self (Atman), taken the other it is the world (Brahman). Tat Tvam Asi: they are the same.

Bloody hell is this a long process of self undiscovery or what!