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Emptiness,
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The plagiarism machines aren’t what you think they are.

Emptiness,
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Are you really? Are you less you if you amputate your limbs? Are you your thoughts? Then what is aware of having thoughts?..

Emptiness,
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The person certainly is a series of electrical impulses 🙂 But what’s aware of the person’s story is what was there before the body existed and will be there after the body is gone.

Emptiness,
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I like it! And I have another take;

Are you?

Like really.

Your perception of yourself, is it made of anything more than thoughts? (memories, values, wants etc). When you have moments without thoughts. Where are you then? What are you then?

Emptiness,
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This meme is actually on to something fundamental 😊

Emptiness,
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“Meaning” is only another story in your mind. A thought-concept.

“What’s wrong with right now if you don’t think about it?”

Emptiness,
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I’m nothing. There’s no separate self here, just thoughts. There’s no separate self there either. So what is remembering what? 😊

Emptiness,
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You might like to check out the story of Jill Bolte Taylor. A brain scientist who lost contact with her left hemisphere due to a stroke. Then later when she had healed wrote a book about it all.

Interestingly a lot of what she (and you?) experienced is what you experience during Awakening/Realization.

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