It is impossible to accurately define, firmly grasp - except by relentless negation of all that it is not - but it is not an illusion - it is ever present, awake, always the most immediate, alive yet inert part of this very moment
sharing a short poem i wrote about it a few years ago
Well, also, logically, if there is some kind of mental activity going on which one is experiencing then it seems absurd to deny that it is happening to something* somewhere* regardless of whether its content is illusory. (* Allowances to be made for limitations of the ability of language to represent things, states, etc.)
"The deepest and most worthy rabbit hole you can possibly dive into is the question of identity. "
Simple, direct and powerful concluding segment . Into the rabbit hole that dissolves every idea of who we are
Yet many have the experience of the unique, indivisible self. It may be "illusory" but if it's an illusion it's still a _real_ illusion.
The indivisible self is the only thing that is not an illusion
It's certainly an experience a lot of people have, yet there are those who say it's an illusion. I don't know exactly what they mean, though.
It is impossible to accurately define, firmly grasp - except by relentless negation of all that it is not - but it is not an illusion - it is ever present, awake, always the most immediate, alive yet inert part of this very moment
sharing a short poem i wrote about it a few years ago
https://anandaonly.in/2020/07/07/reflection-on-a-window/
Well, also, logically, if there is some kind of mental activity going on which one is experiencing then it seems absurd to deny that it is happening to something* somewhere* regardless of whether its content is illusory. (* Allowances to be made for limitations of the ability of language to represent things, states, etc.)