persona + shadow = ego.

I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved witness of all these thoughts, emotions, feelings, and desires.

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

objects as if they were our own self.

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?

Incredible as it seems, they came up with a boundary on the meta-boundary. They invented the meta-meta-boundary, better known as algebra.

That within which feels pain is itself pain-less; that which feels fear is fear-less; that which perceives tension is tensionless. To witness these states is to transcend them.

must actively and consciously attempt to increase the particular tension.

since consciousness fundamentally transcends the separate organism, then