Hello friends

attempt at a a critical answer:

> > Ekaayano aya"m bhikkhave maggo.

Satipatthana Sutta, more than everything else maybe, but it was said
before.
the encyclopedic instructions therein covers the 'total'-the five
aggregates,
the real way one should look at the 'self':

1 rupa- physical,
2 vedana - emotional,
3 sanna - memory-recognition
4 sankhara - conditions, the stream of being (everything experienced)
5 vinnana - consciousness as the observation, the presence of mind.

(Sankharas, to use modern terminology, is an 'emergent',
a process functionality, and consciousness is the supreme example of a
Sankhara.
it is analysed as the 'aggregarte, component, that experience all,
including itself, the experience of as distinct from 1,2,3),()

the Blessesd one declared that if any one postulates a self apart from
these
he is misled, of a wrong view.

the Sutta presents different tactics to recognize, familiar oneself
with these 'components of reality', and that's the real meanning of
'know thy self'
(and be free')

so, naturally, 'the only way'. 'EkayanaMaggo'

Metta
Bhikkhu Jothiko