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Originally Posted by Gem

Buddhism isn't a philosophy about self, and the examples in the suttas don't lay claim to an atman styled self as a true self or a nihilistic perspective of your non-existence. It's common people want a definite answer to the existential question, but insight into this does not provide an answer... but even the Brahman discourse is a finger pointing rather than an answer given. Buddhism doesn't give the answer because Buddha didn't answer these questions, but he did outline the reasons why he doesn't answer these in a couple of the suttas, which I'm too lazy to dig up again.

No one will ever figure it out, so the practice of 'knowing self', it's what is true of you at the moment. Not an answer as such, but as the subjective experience, and as the meditation is this observation, to recognise the experience without mine, me, my or I, it's just the truth of the experience as it is now in the way it is experienced by you.

' No one will ever figure it out '
Figure what out Gem?