The search for a true nature assumes there is something real at the core of what appears. Many seekers believe there is an essence waiting to be discovered, a final truth about who or what they are. But there is nothing underneath, no fundamental reality hiding beneath the illusion of self—only this empty appearance. The search goes on endlessly because it is looking for something that simply is not there. When the self falls away, there is no one left to seek, no nature to uncover. What is left is not a final realization, only the absence of the one that believed there was something to find.