11/ So we settle for a start-stop forced process whereupon we experience, then stop to evaluate the experience, then evaluate the evaluation
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12/ This is all out of habit and largely unconscious. No one taught us how to think. We assume that's the way it is, that it is natural.
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13/ We feel the need to relate everything to a self, which we maintain by feeding it back as a filter for every experience.
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14/ "Come off it" and "Let go of yourself" is actually Sounder advice than therapy sessions/psychology practice that don't treat the cause.
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15/ There is in fact no permanent self, just the illusion of it being so. That illusion is also traditionally referred to as the ego.
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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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That's the million dollar question.
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