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.
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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...
Alternatively, the entire thing collapses and starts flickering so fast you either puke, stumble or feel a need to clutch the nearest object.
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Or, doing a bit of stuff I'm still cultivating the ability to do, you supposedly start to feel pretty great about life. :P
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Not existing as a discreet experiential object ≠ not having the illusion of such floating around in your general perception of the world
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There's simply no vantage point from which one can locate one's self.
This doesn't really mean that the self doesn't exist.
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The Buddha's major mistake lies in trying to pinpoint the self to a specific location.
The self cannot withstand being too closely observed; it tends to disappear under narrow attentional focus.
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