I really seem to be the body. If I look at my hand, and say that I will move my hand, then my hand will move and it appears that I have done it. My hand has moved in synchrony with my own wishes for forty-one years now. So in these years I have learned that I am my body. It is a story, and a story ...

I don’t know.

Maybe I am This - this which I see and hear right now.

But this answer does not stay with me, so can it be right?

Besides This and the thought of being the body, I have no answer.

Thought is a communication that only I can apprehend (my own thoughts, anyway). It is wrong at least as often as it is right. New thoughts can be introduced from the environment, but I can’t deliberately get rid of whatever thoughts are present. Some are forgotten sooner or later and some are not. I ...

From thought.

If I momentarily disregard the thought that I am moving the body, that I am the body, then of course I do not find anyone who is moving the body, who is breathing.

The exercise doesn’t last. In the next moment, once again it is I that is doing this, I that is doing that.

My conditioning says that I am my body.

Thank you, Bezuda.


Self is the interior, responsible part. If an action is to be taken, self is the part that says, “do this, do that.”

“I” is my body, rendered without accuracy in the mind - a sketch of a face from twenty years ago, a stick for a torso, hands and limbs as necessary when they are ...

My name is Sandy. I’d like to request a guide.

In 2005, an inner voice told me that there was only one consciousness. I believed it, and I googled it, and that began my interest in nondualism. However, I never had any direct experiences of oneness or no-self or anything of the sort, and my interest ...