' Self Identity '...

Soh Wei Yu Its not so complex. I do not promote nor believe in a soul or atman that exists and reincarnates. There is no self or Self.

A better example is: during a dream at night a personal self identity has adventures, has a body and mental activity. It has no existence besides being an appearance generated and projected by subconscious conditioning and memories..

When awoken in the morning, that self disappears. It has no continuation. The next night in a dream, a new but similar identity arises that feels like a “me”, as an autonomous entity. It’s just a new expression of subconscious dynamics.

Likewise our daytime self identity that feels like “me” is not an autonomous entity; it’s just a projection of subconscious conditioning and memories.

At death, that imagined self entity vanishes and a new, but similar self projection becomes the dynamics that seem to have reincarnated. There is a Ground Consciousness, Zhi, that projects persons and worlds which are really only fictional
identities appearing as THOUGH being a continuity of a single self across multiple lifetimes.

But each personality as a self is completely unconnected to the previous one, but the database out of which all these arise is also not a fixed Self or god. It’s simply the subconscious pole of what’s appearing in and as, empty moments of consciousness. All there is Consciousness appearing. Consciousness can also express itself as embodiment of its own Buddha dynamics.


-Jackson Peterson