If you don't know you, you are still you; if you know you, you are not you. ——Ding Yuanying
This sentence, at first glance, seems a bit convoluted. But if you think about it carefully, it is actually about the awakening of self-awareness.
Socrates said: The unexamined life is not worth living.
I think we can change it a little bit. Life without awareness is a waste of time.
Awareness comes first, awakening comes second.
Before a person becomes aware, he may never have thought about the proposition "Who am I?" He has never examined it at all, so he has no answer to this question - he does not know who he is - so he is still the same ignorant and stubborn "self".
See mountains, just mountains. At this time, he is in the stage of "not knowing what he doesn't know."
But once a person begins on the path to awakening, everything changes.
