> Nothing is itself. Everything is everything else (what it is not).
>
> This probably sounds very bizarre, but it's true. There are not actually any
opposites.
>
> The true Subject, the perceiver, the Reality, is everything that one isn't.
>
Let's look a tad deeper, play with these ideas a little.
What is the true Self, then, if it isn't me?
The true "S"elf is the rest of the universe, except for me.
Who or what is the 'me'?
The 'me' is a conglomeration of everything that isn't really what it is, and
everybody who is not really who they are. It's me, of course, as me. It's you, as you. It's everyone and everything, backwards.
It is another who isn't anyone or anything -- thus it wants to be somebody, wants to get a life, wants to possess everything.
Do you want a lot of possessions, to possess lots of things?
Only demons want to possess anything.
How does this false self dissolve, how can it? There's only one way.
For everything that is not it, to be dropped.
You don't have to lose yourself to get rid of self, to attain 'ego-death'. You have to lose everything else.
That is why the false self rarely goes.
Peace...
>
> This probably sounds very bizarre, but it's true. There are not actually any
opposites.
>
> The true Subject, the perceiver, the Reality, is everything that one isn't.
>
Let's look a tad deeper, play with these ideas a little.
What is the true Self, then, if it isn't me?
The true "S"elf is the rest of the universe, except for me.
Who or what is the 'me'?
The 'me' is a conglomeration of everything that isn't really what it is, and
everybody who is not really who they are. It's me, of course, as me. It's you, as you. It's everyone and everything, backwards.
It is another who isn't anyone or anything -- thus it wants to be somebody, wants to get a life, wants to possess everything.
Do you want a lot of possessions, to possess lots of things?
Only demons want to possess anything.
How does this false self dissolve, how can it? There's only one way.
For everything that is not it, to be dropped.
You don't have to lose yourself to get rid of self, to attain 'ego-death'. You have to lose everything else.
That is why the false self rarely goes.
Peace...