"Wow this feels so real and authentic. Let me just fix everything on this. Jesus, I feel so good. Holy shit it's all so crazy. Whole world is billowing in waves and - hold up this is starting to feel a lot like turbulence wait help I am trapped in my foot!"
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Yeah. I fixed so much concentration on the transitory movement of attention, when attention moved to my foot the whole ego moved with it.
Felt like puking.
Don't let rubes define self/no-self for you. Trust your training. It's all just sensation.
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Terminology is nebulous and contradictory.
I have not had every experience or attainment entailed in someone's practice, real or imaginary, obviously.
It's "a" no-self, but what would be "the" no-self?
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Probably the wrong crowd, but I really don't rate Buddhism, nor anything else.
Everything a Buddhist can do, I can do too. Everything I can do, they can do too. Excepting, perhaps, a lot of window dressing.
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The ontology of atman anatman is of as much concern to me as the ontology of free will:
No concern at all.
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If you atomize awakenings or realizations or insights into little tidbits of wisdom
- which I have no opinion on whether you should or not -
the awakening or realization or insight that words are intrinsically worthless really changes things.
A lot.
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If not in training or lineage, I've become one of those annoying Zen disciples who scorn words.
I... kind of enjoy it.
Gets even worse on low-to-zero levels of conscious thought, at which point I'm markedly less inhibited in fucking with people.
You know - empowerment.
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Yes, but there is a big difference between being delusional and insane and being aware of it (and slowly becoming less so), and being delusional and insane and not being aware of it.