Amazing Facts - Where is Our 'Self'?

Ponder on the following amazing facts. Fact No 1 - Because it takes our brains 80 milliseconds to process in formation; that means we are all living ever so slightly in the past. Fact No 2 - Because it takes so long for their light to reach Earth many of the stars we see at night are long gone. This tells us that what we see and hear and feel, in fact anything to do with our five senses, when we experience them, after they have been processed by the CPU of our mind, we are experiencing the 'past'. This fact is definitely apparent and proven in the case of some of the stars; for what we see is the past, as the applicable stars no longer exist! If what we see is always the past, whether slightly, or definitely so, then it stands to reason that beyond the 'experience' nothing really exists, that is, there is nothing immutable and permanent that exist the same from one millisecond to the next. There is therefore nothing eternal and permanent in this world, no matter how durable and everlasting we perceive them to be. No matter how fleeting or how microscopic, everything is subject to change and are constantly changing. We are a different person from one moment to the next. We are a different person with every heartbeat. In fact we die and are reborn again with each new heartbeat. Even if it comes down to the minute changes in some cells in the skin and here and there, organs and brain etc. If we are always experiencing a memory of the 'past' or more specifically the imagery of an experience from the 'past', then it accords with reason, that life is an illusion, that life is empty of any immutable permanent entity or self. If our permanent self is not in our changing body and by extrapolation our changing mind, then our human persona of a 'self' or 'ego' is an illusion! We only exist in our 'mind'! And in logical terms, that is a 'delusion' if what we mentally perceive turns out to be an 'illusion'. But how come we have an innate sense of a 'self'? The only reason I can think of is that of a permanent self in another dimension outside this dimension (that is an illusion) of our human world; that is dreaming that he is the ''self' in this illusionary dimension of our human world. In other words the permanent self, outside of his 'dream', is dreaming that he is the illusionary self, in the dream (that is of our world). But since the dreamer is lost in his illusionary self within his dream, how is he going to be aware that it is only a dream, only an illusion, and that if he awakens from his dream he will revert back to his permanent self that was only dreaming the dream? For the dream is so real within the dream that the illusionary self (within the dream) thinks that it is indeed the permanent self; and that any talk of him being illusionary or a delusion and that someone else is the 'permanent self' that is dreaming (him or it) is itself a 'dream'. Confused! No wonder we are all so confused and lost! I stand corrected. No wonder, most of mankind (other than us, if you should understand this dissertation) are so confused! Vincent Cheok Hong Chuan

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