Meditation people talk about dissolving the sense of self, but often try to push it away. A better approach is to accept the sense of self and make it explicit in awareness with as much clarity as possible. Then it is no longer who you are, but instead, what is being observed.
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I tend to find that most often it's not even that. Instead, it's just not there.
Whatever thought to be you turns out to be just a sensation. Tension, itching, whatever...
Then suddenly you realize something else has taken its place and is now "you", until you observe it isn't.
Etc.
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Yeah, good point. That is a slightly different kind of insight I think. I am talking more about the gross sense of self. But of course, as it is observed we realize that it is merely a cluster of body sensations and thought blips, impermanent.
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You being glib, m8?
If there isn't a sense of self, how do you locate it?
You just locate something that feels like it's in the center.
Typically, that means you've shifted your vantage to something that is now "the center", until you try to look at it and shift it again...
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