Stuff like checking if what you're looking at is you, or if you actually chose where your attention went, your decisions and so on. I'm aware that Vipassana means "insight meditation", so maybe I'm wrongish, but I haven't seen this stuff taught.
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Also, apparently there are people who have allegedly gotten no-self that still somehow believe they have free of will. Which I just find completely bizarre. Who has free will, exactly? If you think you're choosing your thoughts, intentions, and actions, you're still confused.
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it sometimes seems like one can "choose between". Even that is an illusion (on what basis do you choose?), but there can be this increased sense of freedom/choice because of the increased awareness.
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it feels like ordinary people are completely robots and that you somehow are less. At the ultimate level you aren't, but there is a feeling you're awake and they're sleeping. Hard to talk about.
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It's not that you're really different than anyone else on any fundamental level, or better than anyone else; you just happen to be aware of the fact that you're a robot, while others think that they're a self. It is hard to talk about.
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Well, I think one can retain a self. Of course, to do so, that self has to do nothing, so... ;)
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Heh. Fine. You can have a self, but you can't be one.
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