How do you see a self being created? Can you give any examples observed in your own experience?

When looking for an experience of self being created, what I find is thoughts and emotional responses and not any experience of self nor the creation of self.

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How do you see a self being created? Can you give any examples observed in your own experience?

When looking for an experience of self being created, what I find is thoughts and emotional responses and not any experience of self nor the creation of self.

How do you see a self being created? Can you give any examples observed in your own experience?

When looking for an experience of self being created, what I find is thoughts and emotional responses and not any experience of self nor the creation of self.

How do you see a self being created? Can you give any examples observed in your own experience?

When looking for an experience of self being created, what I find is thoughts and emotional responses and not any experience of self nor the creation of self.

/B x

There is no 'me', 'I' or 'self'. There never has been and there never will be.

What comes up when you read this?

My emotional response is relief and the first thought is ”Oh, what a relief to not have to try to create a self”

/B x

Take 2 or 3 items with a perfume or strong smell: could be essential oils if you have any, or toiletries - or anything at all with a distinctive smell. Observe as closely as you possibly can what arises in the sense experience, and in the mind as you take the item to your nose: the sensation of ...

There´s many things that comes together to make the experience seeing

What things come together?

Light, a human body with all the bits and bobs that is needed to be able to see (eye, nerves, brain etc)

Can you actually observe the eardrum or the brain? Or are these.. just previously-learned ...

when lighy hits the retina and the brain makes sense of that experience

Is this an actual observation in direct experience? Or an intellectual explanation based on ideas that have been previously learned?

For example, when I look at my fairy lights hanging on the wall I see different coloured ...

Hiya!
1. Look around where you are for 5 minutes or so. Is there the experience of looking / seeing + someone doing the looking and seeing? Or is there simply the experience of looking / seeing?


There´s an undeniable experience when light hits the retina and the brain makes sense of that ...

[quote="Hare"]OK, this inquiry requires us to be clear about what is direct, actual experience and what is thought / ideas about experience. Try the following:

1.Imagine the sound of a bell or gong, as clearly as you possibly can. Done that?
OK, now ring an actual bell or gong and hear the sound ...

Seeing how helpful it was for a friend to do this inquiry on a regular daily basis made me wanting to give it a proper go.
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