The self
The grand teachers of submission have such magnificent teachings of the self; who could fault their cleverness? Their teaching goes something like this: "All concepts must be conceived by something. Even the concept 'self' must have a conceiver - the self behind all concepts is the True Self." They say "I think therefore I am".
Why must concepts emanate from a conceiver? When we analyze any concept we find that it has neither a beginning nor an end - now, where on earth is this "concept" and "conceiver"? It is all very well to say "I think therefore I am", but the premise "I think" has no foundation as the "I" only comes into existence after the fact, that is, after the conceiving has been done. "I think therefore I am" really means "I think I am therefore I am."