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Originally Posted by slash112
I think you're rolling on the assumption that you are the body.
You could say that there is no "you", but that's just too foreign for most people. So I mostly stick with there is a "you", but it's not what most people think it is.
The reason that burning everything up reveals you, is because YOU are the one "thing" that everything is not. You're a no-thing.
Or indeed you could say that burning everything up reveals "truth". It's up to you whether you call that truth "truth", "you", "isness" or "pure awareness" or whatever.
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Yeah it may be that we are calling that by a different name.
If I remember correctly you made the similie between deep sleep and Nibanna didn't you?
Until this day I have not experienced any awareness during deep sleep.
If this state is close to nibanna (which is doubtful, but seems to come close to some interpretations of it) Where is the sense of self during deep sleep.
It's gone in my experience. So in that state I cannot say I AM. Closest I can come to it is afterwards so I can merely say. I was. But now I am different
Only in my mind can I conjure up some linear progression from point deep sleep to point waking up.
With Love
Eelco