The False Premise of "Me"
La falsa premisa del "yo"
A student and teacher explore how the sense of self is built on an unexamined assumption, and how inquiry into that assumption differs from simply trusting the process.
The False Premise of "Me"
A student and teacher explore how the sense of self is built on an unexamined assumption, and how inquiry into that assumption differs from simply trusting the process.
Because it starts on a false premise.
Yes, the premise that "myself" is real in the way I take it to be. It's hard to say, because we have a thought, a creation that is a thought complex, and then that is what we call "I." That is what we call "me," "myself." But it doesn't appear to us like it's an assumption or a thought. Yet it is.
So you're saying that we take the "I" to be the mind?
The assumption hidden in plain sight
Well, we take the mind to be the "I." So when you say "myself," you are referring to something that is not really what you are. Then that gets projected onto everything, and that is solipsism.
Yes.
What you can actually do
So when you said, "Just trust the process," sure. But there is something you can do, which is to inquire into the nature of that which you call "me," more deeply and more directly.