16/ We create and recreate a self in each moment. The illusion of permanence owes to 1) identification with thought 2) recycled thoughts.
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17/ Those thoughts we recycle the most we identify with the most. Those are what we come to call "I", but it's not fixed, it's a loop.
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18/ Going back to the doors example. When you break this cycle you essentially free inputs for your mind to witness itself in the present.
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19/ You free up the inputs from the pattern of recycling past into present, and projecting it into the future. You stop creating a 'self'.
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20/ You start feeling a space, and in that space you feel yourself being, without any need to define your being with thought. You simply are
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21/ That is why all meditation practices insist on letting go of thoughts. They are there, but in the background, no input, no influence.
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22/ There are endless methods of meditation but they all essentially aim to disrupt this conditioned mind that feeds back on itself.
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23/ Some break the mind through the mind others go through the body, but the essence is to get you out of your mind and back to your senses.
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I find mantra based meditation less effective than meditation focused on observation of the senses.
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Mantra gets in the way of observing the stimulus response loops of the thoughts we think are ours and thus identify with as the self
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