There are two entities. One, the awareness and two, the physical body. I am the awareness. What I address as “I” is the awareness.
After my enlightenment, I was afraid. If I am only the “awareness” of my own emptiness – then the question comes “Who is afraid?”. I could not answer this question for a long time until today.
Today I realized that this awareness is personified and it is a revolution. It has an “I”. But this awareness is not the physical body.
The awareness is personified but not a person.
I, the awareness, is/was afraid of its own emptiness – of the emptiness and not of another “mass” as the awareness is massless.
I am the “awareness”. I have become aware of my own emptiness. But I am not the physical body. I know that I am empty, devoid of mass, and hence I am afraid.
The “I” (the awareness) is expressing itself through the physical body. My physical body and actions are an expression of the “I”.
The physical body is a tool or the “I” (awareness). The awareness interacts with the world with the help of the physical body. The awareness gets is plan accomplished with the help of the physical body.
I am aware of the “I”, I know I am the “I”, but others see me as the physical body. They do not know the “I”.
So, what I think of myself as, and what others think of me are very different.