To put it very simply, everyone has 2 selves: the great wider more expansive self, and a smaller, manufactured, narrow self that is largely fuelled by others. The former 'contains' and encompasses the latter. It is this former originary self that can be equated with the notion of 'daemon' or inner oracle, Brahman or God, or indeed light itself. The latter, though it may come in many disguises can be equated with the small self, or Atman, or darkness and shadow.
This weblog, using the city not only as metaphor but as physical map, is an attempt to reach the former, that is, the wider, more expansive Self.
The so-called 'I', what we normally take as the self, is merely a frame of interpretation added to this life process after the fact. The true self is the source of the life process itself, the true body of the will to power. It is what I have called 'the self itself' or 'the self as such' and not what is ordinarily called 'the self'. The so-called 'I' is a tool of this greater self.
[Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness]
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