Losing Oneself

Tag: selfing

  • selfing and awareness-ing

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    Back in February on this blog I quoted Sam Harris re selfing one’s experience. Now here’s Jon Kabat-Zinn on awareness-ing: The real practice is life itself. And coming to all of those senses in hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, and also we could say minding. Which is another way of saying awareness-ing. Selfing. Awareness-ing. Here’s…

  • the ordinary self and nonduality

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    To the ordinary self, NDA appears as an object of sorts, something one might want to experience or as a capacity one might want to have. To NDA, however, the ordinary self and its constituting processes, to the extent that they can be phenomenally accessed, appear as contents within its space.[1] – Josipovic and Miskovi In…

  • selfing your experience

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    Simon Ellis
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    This is from Sam Harris’s app called Waking Up and is a brief commentary about ego and illusion: … your mental experience of the world is a process. It is not a static something. So the experience of being a self, an ego, in the middle of all of these changing neurophysiological states, it too…