Recognize that whatever happened a few minutes ago is no longer here. It’s
gone. Its effects may linger, but what was reality a few years or days or
even seconds ago is no longer reality now. You could explore your reactions
to this recognition. Is it alarming? Sad? Freeing?
///////////////////The abolition of the conceit I am— That is truly the supreme bliss. UDANA 2.1
///////////////The self is not something in and of itself; rather we create the felt sense of it moment to moment. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
/////////////////////The profound realization that underlies the Buddha’s awakening…[is] that neither a self nor something belonging to a self can be found at all, at any time, anywhere. BHIKKHU ANĀLAYO
/////////////////////PRACTICING WITH THE SENSE OF SELF The Buddha encouraged practicing with the apparent self through insight into its empty nature and through
gradually releasing identification (“that is me”),
possessiveness (“that is mine”), and
conceit (“I am better than you, I matter more than you”).
As you explore these practices, it’s normal to feel turned upside down and shaken.
///////////////////////I’ve found it really useful to recognize the apparent self and its many parts as processes that keep changing—in effect, a kind of self-ing rippling through awareness. Instead of trying to hold on to a presumed self, open into the “person process” you actually are, in which smaller eddies of self-ing can come…and go
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///////////////////The abolition of the conceit I am— That is truly the supreme bliss. UDANA 2.1
///////////////The self is not something in and of itself; rather we create the felt sense of it moment to moment. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
/////////////////////The profound realization that underlies the Buddha’s awakening…[is] that neither a self nor something belonging to a self can be found at all, at any time, anywhere. BHIKKHU ANĀLAYO
/////////////////////PRACTICING WITH THE SENSE OF SELF The Buddha encouraged practicing with the apparent self through insight into its empty nature and through
gradually releasing identification (“that is me”),
possessiveness (“that is mine”), and
conceit (“I am better than you, I matter more than you”).
As you explore these practices, it’s normal to feel turned upside down and shaken.
///////////////////////I’ve found it really useful to recognize the apparent self and its many parts as processes that keep changing—in effect, a kind of self-ing rippling through awareness. Instead of trying to hold on to a presumed self, open into the “person process” you actually are, in which smaller eddies of self-ing can come…and go
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