Anatta - what arises from the self?

Anatta - non-self
Is that possible? Depends on your perspective/understanding on self/non-self.

Modern day society and science, even psychology, have focused a lot on the concept of SELF. But what exactly is a self? You might be your body, but are u also your-self? Or are you your consciousness, and self the ego? Loads of ways to argue or reflect on.

One typical question that people often ponder on, WHO am I? How do you answer that question? Are you your name, your family background, your qualifications, your career/job, or your personality and characteristics, or your consciousness?
Your answer might be as good as mine. That is, unless you know the answer to be the truth and nothing but the Truth.

And that is what the Dharma is trying to share with us. The truth about the self. That there is NO self. How can there be any self, when we are changing and evolving all these while?
Even better, look at it from the metaphysics angle. When you drill matter, as we know it, all the way down, from compounds, molecules, atoms, electrons to the energy and space deep within, all we have left is Energy. (or maybe they use some other term). So from a science (physics) angle, we are all made up of energy, so what is there to differentiate you from me? Or is our "consciousness" different from individual to individual? but wont that consciousness also be also energy/wavelengths? So is it different or the same?

In our delusion and ignorance, we have tried to differentiate ourselves from the next person. Thru our differing jobs, looks, dressing, status, etc. But ultimately, at the end of the day, we are the same as any other person on the street. And unless we see that fact, we will not be able to move beyond the knowledge that it really is "one for all, and all for one".

When everyone and everything is the same, what would you get? or rather, let's come from the other end. when everyone is supposedly different, what is the end result? you get competition, greed, hatred, and many other negative emotions and actions that might thus arise when you believe you deserve more/better...

truly, what is the point of comparing yourself to your neighbour? by having a "self", what do you hope to achieve? it is not about you versus the other(s). it is about the reality of our universe and how we can move into the light when we reach the stage of non-self...