The I or the You Does Not Exist
The whole thing is as simple as this: There is no "I." There is just what's going on,here and now. The "I"`is not. It isn't here. It's absent. Zero, nada, zilch. Experience is happening. To no one. lt just is.
There is no self and never was. There is only life, arising or happening. You are not who you think you are (literally). "You", exist because the thought appears. Then you believe it, then it has a life, and then all of "your" life gets created.
But that life is not you, and it is not who you really are. In reality, you are nothing and no one. Life is happening - and there is nothing outside of that. The illusion is that "you" are personal. Nothing can happen to "you" because there is no "you." "You" can't be harmed. The body can perish, but it's not "your" body any more than a flower is"your" body- it's the body of life.
The mind is playing a great trick, in which it appears that the individualis the author of "their" life. Have you ever directly looked to find this "you" that is supposedly a separate entity that controls and directs your life? This "you" cannot be found. Life just happens by itself. You don't exist separate from life as a whole. There is no loss experienced on seeing this. You have been living your whole life thinking that you are in control. The truth is that you are not in control. More exactly, there is no "you" to be in control. Every action your body has taken, and every thought that has arisen in your mind, has happened without anyone behind the curtains making it happen. Everything that is within your experience is entirely a product of past events. Just as your heart beats without anyone's approval, so your mind thinks without anyone's approval and your body acts without anyone's approval. There is no "you" back there making it all happen. There isn't even a "you" back there watching it all happen. Awareness is simply arising because the conditions are in place for awareness to arise.The body and all physical objects exist in reality. But "self" is not the body. It is not an object; it does not exist in reality. There is no "self" separate from what's happening, no little broken-off piece of life that is a special "me" that you own and can direct and control, separate from the whole. There is no you at all - nothing and no one behind experience, but always only the experience. There is no "you" out of which everything emanates. "You" have only ever been an idea, a notion, created out of nowhere.
The mind is playing a great trick, in which it appears that the individualis the author of "their" life. Have you ever directly looked to find this "you" that is supposedly a separate entity that controls and directs your life? This "you" cannot be found. Life just happens by itself. You don't exist separate from life as a whole. There is no loss experienced on seeing this. You have been living your whole life thinking that you are in control. The truth is that you are not in control. More exactly, there is no "you" to be in control. Every action your body has taken, and every thought that has arisen in your mind, has happened without anyone behind the curtains making it happen. Everything that is within your experience is entirely a product of past events. Just as your heart beats without anyone's approval, so your mind thinks without anyone's approval and your body acts without anyone's approval. There is no "you" back there making it all happen. There isn't even a "you" back there watching it all happen. Awareness is simply arising because the conditions are in place for awareness to arise.The body and all physical objects exist in reality. But "self" is not the body. It is not an object; it does not exist in reality. There is no "self" separate from what's happening, no little broken-off piece of life that is a special "me" that you own and can direct and control, separate from the whole. There is no you at all - nothing and no one behind experience, but always only the experience. There is no "you" out of which everything emanates. "You" have only ever been an idea, a notion, created out of nowhere.
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