I in that sentence points to the experience of picking up a glass, from the inside of actually doing it, and someone else is when I observe someone picking up a glass from the outside. The experience of this body is different to that one over there. This body senses movement of the arm directly and contact with the glass directly. With the other body over there I do not directly feel the contact with the glass or the movement of the arm etc.When I pick up a glass it feels differently to me than when I see someone else do it.
What does the word I in the above sentence point to? And what does the word ‘someone else’ point to? To this body and that body over there?
Maybe.Do you think that I = body?
Yes I do believe/assume that there is a self in each body, that this is my body and that is yours.Or there is a self (I) in each body?
My hand.Take a glass and pick it up.
What is picking it up?
No.Is there an entity inside the hand grabbing it and lifting it up?
No.Or the entity is in the chest, and pulling strings from there?
The head is where I believe it (I) to be. There are sensations in the head and thoughts, which I think of as in the head, and there is a decision to move the arm and hand to pick up the glass, and the sensations that go with this. I sneezed when I was doing the exercise at one time. Sneezing felt quite different to picking up the glass even though I think “I sneezed” there was no sense of controlling sneezing unlike with picking up the glass. Even though I have not found the “decider” I still believe that there’s an I that chose, and I am opening more to the possibility that there might not be, that choice happens like sneezing happens.Or maybe the entity (I) is inside the head? Where?
Keith
