where are you ?

[Dedbeet]

To know where I am, I'd first have to know what I am.

You can't look for something without knowing what it is!

Are you clear on what seemingly locates you?

I'm assumedly addressing you now, I'm supposedly speaking to you, which may (or may not) be received as "he's seeing/speaking to me".

That's what locates you.

And yet, these words are not actually being perceived, right now, as coming in from outside of consciousness/awareness, are they?

Nor is the author of this message actually addressing its reader, because these words were not actually perceived as emitting from inside his awareness and going out of it, to somewhere else.

Which makes all communication between two imaginary, no matter how sincere and genuine it may be. Two are never actually involved.

 

[vegan]

Are you existing inside your body, or is your body existing inside you ?

being, as everyone else, the universe, it's definitely the second option

 

[webbykevin]

You can't look for something without knowing what it is![/COLOR]

Nonsense, The other night I heard a noise outside, I didn't know what it was but I grabbed a torch and went looking for the source of the noise.

so I went looking for something without knowing what it was.

 

[Sweet P]

Nonsense, The other night I heard a noise outside, I didn't know what it was but I grabbed a torch and went looking for the source of the noise.

so I went looking for something without knowing what it was.

But you knew what the essence of it was - it was a noise! You just didn't know the details or specifics of that noise outside. On the other hand, I don't really know what my own essence is. I only know the details (I'm a human, I'm female, I hate pop music, and so on). I have no idea what I am underneath all that. When I wrote "you can't look for something without knowing what it is!" I should have been clearer, and written "you can't look for yourself without knowing what yourself (or your Self) is."

This makes sense to me... although I might look at this post tomorrow and think "WTF was I talking about?"

 

[Cthulhu]

This is a great question. However, it is unanswerable. I've heard the analogy of asking, "What color are a rabbit's horns?"

Likewise, the self does not have a location - it does not exist in the body, because you cannot open the body up and say, "there - there is me." It does not exist in the mind, because within the mind there is no thought, concept, or sense impression that you can point to as "me" - you cannot be merely a thought. Nor can you be a stream of thoughts, because that would imply that you do not exist at any given moment, only as a collection of moments, which is nonsensical.

And everything else you might point to as being the self, or the source of the self, or the location of the self, falls prey to similar falacies.