If right now you just temporarily forget everything that happened in your past, and just feel that pure inner I-ness—has anything really changed?

we begin to treat all environmental

Can your eye see itself?

death of the organism is only a problem to a self which identifies exclusively with that organism.

When you are describing or explaining or even just inwardly feeling your “self,” what you are actually doing, whether you know it or not, is drawing a mental line or boundary across the whole field of your experience, and everything on the inside of that boundary you are feeling or calling your “self,” while everything outside that boundary you fee

not occur yesterday. Rather, it is a present occurrence, a present fact, a present activity.

couldn’t you also be the same I-ness of two-hundred years ago?

to draw boundaries is to manufacture opposites. Thus

When you are describing or explaining or even just inwardly feeling your “self,” what you are actually doing, whether you know it or not, is drawing a mental line or boundary across the whole field of your experience, and everything on the inside of that boundary you are feeling or calling your “self,” while everything outside that boundary you fee