Who are you? Are you your body? Your ego? Or are you everything?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Parts of Man

The Spirit or Soul
This is described as having no mass, no wave-length,no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate.
The spirit is not a "thing". It is the "creator" of things.
The usual residence of the soul, (spirit, awareness of awareness unit....YOU) is in the skull or near the body.
YOU are your own immortal soul.
The soul can be in one of four conditions.
1. Entirely separate from a body or bodies.
2. Near a body and knowingly controlling the body.
3. In the body (the skull).
4. An inverted condition, compulsively away from the body and unable to approach it.

There are degrees of each of the above 4 conditions.
The most optimum of these from the standpoint of man, is the second.

The Mind
This is a communication and control system between the spirit and it's (his) environment.
The mind is a network of communications and pictures, energies and masses, which are brought into being by the activities and interactions of the spirit with the Physical Universe and other spirits/individuals.
These activities include the operating of a body and the solving
of problems related to survival and existence.
The mind has 2 Parts:
The Analytical Mind. The keynote of this mind is awareness. One knows what one is concluding and knows what one is doing.
The Reactive Mind. This is a stimulus response mechanism.
This mind acts below the level of consciousness. It never stops operating unlike the Analytical Mind which can be less aware or even completely unconscious.

The Body
A carbon/oxygen engine. This can best be studied in such books as "Grey's Anatomy" and other anatomical texts.

Answer 3

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I have my body, but I am not my body.

I have my ego, but I am much more than my deflated ego.

I am not every thing. I am some body, but closer to nothing much closer.

I include my addictions, my insanity, my poverty, my hunger, my thirst, my yearnings, my emotions which include a deep deep sorrow.

You, Brad, and I, and these readers who are the fellow members of this cyber community, are only a small sub-set of everything.

Answer 4

Very Buddhist question...

"You" are composed of 3 parts... Body, mind and ego.

The problem is that when we say "you" or "i" we mostly point at the ego or at WHAT we are...... not at Who we are really...

Try asking someone "who are you"... most people will include in their answers their jobs, and stuff like that.. If this is correct then it means that those people are their jobs... and if they loose their job, do they cease to exist?

Body is the sum of 5 aggregates.
Mind is the sum of alot of parts to boring to explain here
ego is your self-grasping and attachment to our own desires

The true Buddhist answer: You are not one of your parts.. you are not the collection of your parts... you are not the absence of your parts... ( all this can be proven with a long example) so.. what left for "you"to be other then your own experience

Answer 5

Lately, I've been my ego. All self righteous and feeling the martyr trip. Today, I feel like my spirit, I am in constant meditation with God. I need forgiveness and emancipation.
I am hardly my body, ever. I have been consciously and unconsciously reveling outside myself. This is a painful process, trying to make a connection with the High One...

Answer 6

This is an age old question. I suggest you read Weirob's First, Second, and Third Nights. They all deal with the personal identity and the existence after death. Some claim that personal identity is bodily identity. Others claim that you be psychologically continuous before and after death to determine personality. It just gets weird and technical. For instance Cohen mentions (in the second night I believe) that a person must correctly anticipate being him or herself to exist after death and have personal identity. I personally believe is your soul and subject of experience that determines who you are.

Answer 7

We are our hormones! Hormones control secretions in our body which might affect mood and feelings. Hormones also act up when something happen so that we can react as fast as possible! WE ARE OUR HORMONES :) Haha. Interesting quesiton!

Answer 8

My sister says that we are not physical beings in search of a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

Answer 9

I am mind-body-spirit in one until the mind and body pass away, then all that will remain is spirit. I am One.

Answer 10

I'm a dude from U.S. I like different stuff, like pizza, strippers, beer, video games, marijuana, n' TV. I also like sleeping late and driving while intoxicated. Word to your mother.

Merry Xmas.

Answer 11

I am a child of God...I have many brothers and sisters here and in spirit...Jesus is my best friend...Without Him I am Nothing...With Him I am Everything...