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Originally Posted by Gem
'There is no you' is the basic tenet of non-duality. I think it means to say that there isn't a personal/individual awareness, only an individualised experience - no one is here to experience it.
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Can you get the felt-sense that in this that’s happening… there is ONLY this that’s happening. The phenomenal ‘you’ is a modulation of this. It has no separate, inherent existence. It’s borne out of and sustained by a vast web of complex conditions. When these conditions subside so does the self. In dreams it becomes looser and unbound. In deep sleep it dissolves. There is no actual, intrinsic self - what we experience is the phenomenal/conventional self.
What is this essential ______ which moment by moment gives rise to it all? No one knows. We can call it Oneness or Source or Reality (or God if you prefer) but these are merely placeholder for something truly ineffable.