The witness is just a thought too. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The self is just one of our many constructed models of reality. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Not 'get rid of the self', but transcend and include it. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
To address your shortcomings, embody the opposite. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, ↔️ Opposites, 🙋 Self.
Who will be the knower once the self is know? The knower must be the self. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
We should say "it thinks" like we say "it rains". Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Understand yourself as a facet of the whole. Identify with all the other facets. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The subject appears later and lays claim to the action. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The mind creates the fiction of duality by superimposing interpretations on perceptions. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The knower is consciousness delimited by the mind; the known is consciousness delimited by the objective form. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The conceptual mind is surmounted by exhausting it, negating all conceptual possiblities. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Something can't arise from nothing. Either there is still nothing or there was always something. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Pushing againt yourself creates a division. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Intentionality is the hinge between dual and nondual action. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Each thought is nondual. We obscure this by linking thoughts in a chain. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Craving is how we divide up the world through language. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!" Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
If you believe that you are in control of your thoughts, that you create them: trying stopping thinking! Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 🧘 Mindfulness.
Who are you, once you've let everything go? Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self.
Our true nature is deep, still, harmonious without the polarities of opinion and belief. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
By holding fast to our likes and dislikes, we continually recreate the sense of self. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
The self is like a net made to catch suffering. Also in: 🙋 Self, 👤 Human.
No part of a person is unchanging, permanent. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
Solitary confinement is (the sense of self is) a prison. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Thoughts arise without your permission. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness.
Your self is an individual expression of many collectives. Also in: 👤 Human, 🙋 Self.
The effort to be a different person increases the tension, the suffering. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Decisions seems like problems from a self-centred point of view. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Look for your head. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self, 🙆 Acceptance.
Who were you before that (part of your identity) existed? Also in: 🙋 Self.
The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
Happiness can't be acquired, only revealed. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Use the body as a visual path to your headless nature. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
An empty signifier with no fixed referent. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
The space in which reality reveals itself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The self is a public event and a private experience. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The self is a modality of action, not the seat of our identity. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The more true the identity is, the less defined, until it finally drops away. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The "I am" prior to all. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, ☯️ Daoism, 🙋 Self.
Sense the indefinite, flexible, indeterminate boundaries. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 🙆 Acceptance.
"ego-reframe" more than "ego death": revealing the interconnected relationships of self and reality, rather than a process of erasure and reconstruction. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
"We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
Notice how the thought of other's people opinions creates a self. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 👤 Human.
The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
The sense of self is just another thought. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Reality is not given to you twice. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
Look for the dividing line between contents and context. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
A mirror only gives not-mirror. But it also only gives it in the mirror! Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ⏰ Waking-up, 🙋 Self.
The self is like a constellation. It exists only be convention. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
The self is just a concept, coming from identifying with what's arising. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
The feeling of self is a (diffuse) contraction. Just relax, allow it to soften. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 👤 Human.
You are not anything you can think about yourself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Not an injunction to do, but an invitation to rest. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Distraction from discomfort is the separate self expressing itself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Big insights have to be available now, not just as impermanent, peak, states. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
The effort to meditate creates the meditator, separateness, duality. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
The separate self arises in resisting and seeking. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
In awareness there is no resistance. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🙆 Acceptance.
When you notice someone looking your way: what are they looking at? Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The feeling of self is like clenching a fist. But the inside is still empty. Also in: 🙋 Self.
Notice what you map to your sense of self. For example: anxiety vs indigestion. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🧘 Mindfulness.
Have no preference. Change the cognitive frame. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Feel the profound relief of recognising no-self. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Emotions and feelings like anger and anxiety are information, “salience signals”. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self.
Being seen creates the “I”, we become self-conscious. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Our reaction to ordinary, everyday, events show us our true colours. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 👤 Human.
All development is envelopment: transcend and include. Also in: 👤 Human, 🙋 Self.
We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Simply rest as that which is aware. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self.
Have little thought of self, and as few desires as possible. Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 🙋 Self.
Your deeper identity is that relaxed, alive, stillness. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
The movement of thoughts in your mind creates a narrative, a self. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Every person is the protagonist in their own story. Also in: 👤 Human, 🙋 Self.
What's real doesn't disappear when we look carefully. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
We can't expect the thinking mind to (break the illusion of the self) by not-thinking. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
The thinking mind works to save energy and avoid the discomfort of being wrong. Also in: 🙋 Self, 👤 Human.
"Selfing" has interacting existential, psychological, and social layers. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
Our conventional sense of self is an illusion. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, ☸️ Buddhism.
Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, ☸️ Buddhism.
Transcend without denying. Also in: 🙋 Self.
It's only when "I" arises that "You", "They", arise. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Look for yourself, at zero distance. Also in: 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Seen in the first instant, or not at all. Before concepts, not beyond them. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self.
It's right on the surface. Like a window as mirror instead of a window. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self.
The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
The self is a stream of dependently arising processes interacting. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, ⏰ Waking-up.
See the balanced view of yourself: your patterns and human imperfections; your basic innate goodness. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 👤 Human.
Integrate insights by being present and open to changes. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
How can you get the (informative and motivating) value from fear? Also in: 🙋 Self.
We all have four heads: universal (shared human things), individual (personality, character, talents), chance (where and when we're born), choice (to act, or not to act). Also in: 🙋 Self, 🏛️ Stoicism, 👤 Human.
If "I" am separate and free from my environment, how can I influence it and act on it? Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual, ⏰ Waking-up.
Free will is an illusion. Can you decide to decide? Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 👤 Human, ⏰ Waking-up.
Bringing attention to things gives us choice. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
You can't get there from here. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, ⏰ Waking-up.
The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🙋 Self, 🙆 Acceptance.
The sky, not the clouds. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness.
The self is causes, conditions, patterns. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, ⭕️ Tmwt, ⏰ Waking-up.
The ocean, not the waves. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness, 💪 Resilience.
The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🧘 Mindfulness, ⏰ Waking-up.
Remove your self. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self.
Piggyblocking. Establish a new habit more easily by putting it between two existing habits. Also in: 👤 Human, 🙋 Self.
Look for what’s looking. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Look for the edges. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Everyone's good qualities are partly luck and partly effort. Also in: 👤 Human, ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self.
A person is different in different situations. A person changes over time. Also in: 👤 Human, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.