Maya : The Illusion of self by Jk Nishanth published on 2023-01-28T03:28:48Z Image: The Love Embrace of the Universe, Frida Kahlo Who am I? What am I? Is there even an "I", to begin with? The age old questions humans have been asking themselves for millennia. Buddha speaks of the middle way, which focuses neither on the self nor non-self, but a meta-self who is an “inquiring spirit.” Rene Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum ("I think , therefore I am) conveys the same but from a different perspective. We get so caught up with our identities, beliefs and thoughts, either assigned to us at birth or chosen by us as one grows. We tend to forget, they are coping mechanisms created by us to survive and fit into the society. Unhealthy attachment to the self begets only suffering to yourself and others. We are born naked and we die naked. Thinking otherwise, is all an illusion of the self. Genre Zenonesque