You are not what you think you are

Did you know...
...that you are not what you think you are? That’s your ego, or your sense of self.

There are basically two ways in which you get an ego. You take a look at yourself and you identify with what you find there (which is the aggregates, or the body-mind complex). Or you get an idea of what you think others think you are like, and you confuse yourself with that image. They are both how you see yourself, or how you look like, and are not you. You are not how you look like; you are the one who’s looking.