Re: "My message is that I am telling you to be yourself...

Do you need someone to "tell" you to be yourself?? If you are following another, the path is not your own.

Seems you must be living in a bubble, or something, not to have noticed, but this is what 99.9% of hypnotized humanity is doing and has been doing for at least a couple thousand years now. It is ever on-going cyclic process. Those individuals of which Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity had arisen from, they were also living in an era in which the masses were bogged down in tradition and share belief systems, conditioned to live like their parents, and their parent's parents... conditioned to be slaves to vested interests. Its an old game. And humanity continues to get ensnared by it over and over and over again. Language changes over time. For example, what Buddha had spoken in Pali, the translaters have shredded into bits and pieces over time. The message that Jesus delivered has been warped into something quite different in meaning. Not only that, but humanity itself is quite different from the humanity that had existed thousands of years ago. The methods to wake up that were used by yoga and tantra don't work with the humanity of today. That's why you have had a tough time with meditation yourself when you tried it. You, yourself, had a misuderstanding between the differences between concentration and meditation (as I recall in a previous post you had written). That's why you "believe" that it is not for you. It is easy to see and criticize the beliefs, the filters, of others. It is more difficult to see the beliefs, the filters, that one has adopted to live by for themselves. Closing doors is also a form of filtering, belief. There is always another layer of oneself to uncover, so it seems.   

Btw, there is no 'following'. Being oneself does not have anything to do with following another. This is also another of your interpretations concluded through the filters you live by. Seems you and your partner (butthead) are continually layering your own interpretations on a number of different subjects and topics. You both have a habit of "believing" what is written by others (mostly gossip between each other) as you are far removed from having from any actual experience on many of these matters you are critiquing. Examination of oneself takes some guts to see the hypocrite that lingers within. This is also part of remaining asleep and unconscious.