"And the other is created by you, by your family, by your church, by your society, by your state, by the crowd.

"This false one is a pretender: it pretends to be the real self. And the real self wants to come out of this unreal one surrounding it. It is a constant suffering for the real self because the real is being suffocated by the unreal; the real feels imprisoned in a dark cell. The real self is vast and has become confined in a very small space. It is crippling and paralyzing.

"So when I say awakening happens only when you are not, I mean when your false ego is no more. And that is the only 'I' you are aware of right now – that is the 'I' you are identified with. Hence I say whatsoever you know of yourself will not be there when awakening happens. That does not mean you will not be there. You will be there, but that 'you' will be so new, so utterly discontinuous with this 'you' that you are living right now, that it is better not to mention it at all.

"Hence Buddha is silent about it. Not only that: if you insist, he calls your real self anatta, a no-self, for the simple reason that to call it also a self may be confusing. The false is known as the self; if the real is also called a self, you may get confused. You are already too much confused. Buddha calls it a no-self.

"But don't lose heart. Don't be worried, don't be afraid that you will die completely. As you are, you will not be there, but you will be there as you should be. Your natural, your spontaneous being will be there.

"And Buddha is also right in calling it a no-self because when the real self is there you don't have any idea of 'I.' The 'I' is also a thought. The real self has no idea of 'I'; the real self is one with the universal self. It is not separate from existence, it is not an island. The unreal self is separate, the unreal self creates separation, hence, the unreal self creates misery."