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...
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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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I had a lot of Dark Night phenomena when I meditated a lot in my teens. Haven't really had it after I quit magick, strangely enough.
Plenty of emotional issues, OTOH, but more in the sense of bringing to light long-standing psychological issues.
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Yeah, for sure. Just because we have insight into no-self doesn't mean our whole psychology has gotten the memo. Takes years for that to trickle down into our enacted psychology in every situation.
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