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The ‘Self’ is Insubstantial

With Christopher Titmuss recorded on February 5, 2023.

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Humans live in the spell of the self, as if it had substantial existence.

Dharma offers a reflection/meditation/inquiry into this phenomenon.

One who asks ‘Who Wakes Up?’ lives in the spell.

Teaching will offer ways to a non-intellectual realisation of emptiness of self.

Be devoted to this in daily life – until obvious as seeing colour for one with sound eyesight.

To wake up from the dream of self is liberating.

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