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I mean, it I'm becomes so evident how there is just a flux of thoughts, sensations, perceptions, but there is no center to these things... It is all arising and passing away. I mean, I had just thought of how arbitrary it is to say "This is my body" or "These are my thoughts and these are my sensations ", but to whom do these things belong? To the thought that claims "This is me, this is mine", but this thought gone, where does this claim go?
Where is this "I"? If I dissect my body, where do I point at and say "This is me"? I could say, the "I" is the entire mind-body system, but then if I cut my fingernails, do I stop being "I"? A part of the body has been lost, right? So if I am it's totality, then I am not.
I guess it is all a matter of operating between two realities: There is a flux of thoughts which claim "this is mine", and there is a flux of thoughts which claim "this is not mine".
Where is this "I"? If I dissect my body, where do I point at and say "This is me"? I could say, the "I" is the entire mind-body system, but then if I cut my fingernails, do I stop being "I"? A part of the body has been lost, right? So if I am it's totality, then I am not.
I guess it is all a matter of operating between two realities: There is a flux of thoughts which claim "this is mine", and there is a flux of thoughts which claim "this is not mine".