Emptiness, no-self and awakening to our true nature

To awaken, no-self must be realized experientially.

No self = nonduality

No-self means you do not exist.

It means that upon close inspection, there’s absolutely nothing that can be called “me”.

No-self means that you are not your body. There is a body, but it is not you or yours since there’s no you to have anything.

There is everything (seemingly), but none of it is me or mine since there is no me nor mine.

The sense of “me” if there is still one, the sense of ownership of the experience, like absolutely everything else, is something that momentarily appears on its own. Like all of our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, concepts, knowledge, ideas, dreams, memories, identity, sensations, sights, sounds, other people, the clouds in the sky etc… All appear in the direct experience/Buddha nature/this/infinity/brahman…

Even the observer, consciousness, awareness… all appear and disappear on their own and none are ours or us or ever were. We're not even potentiality or any other vague concept about some kind of background to everything as potentiality and the background appear in or as what is

There is no me, I’m not, but there is.

When recognizing this truth experientially, the misidentifications that were accrued over time by the mind will begin to drop. Once this truth is fully recognized experientially, the mind will function from a different point of view. It will function to its full potential without the delusion of being something it isn’t.

This is what spiritual awakening and enlightenment are and are all about, the realization that you never were.

With the hope that this contributes to your own awakening.

Patrice