THE FORUMS

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I would like to start this article gently, but the truth is. No matter how I put this, it will seem odd. No matter how I say this, it will rub someone up the wrong way. No matter how delicately I handle this it, will challenge the foundations of your entire life.

If moving towards the truth is not what you want. If breaking free of the ties that have bound your life. If a rejection of the very reason you are here now, searching for freedom is not what you are after, stop reading now.

I’ll assume whoever is left only wants one thing: the cold and ruthless truth. Now to dispense with the pleasantries…

You do not exist.

What? How? Why?

I could explain logically that for self to exist it must be outside of reality-manipulating reality, and that anything outside of reality is unreal.

I could tell you that all you have ever had of your self is your thoughts about it. Just as your thoughts about unicorns do not mean unicorns are real, your thoughts about yourself are nothing more than thoughts.

We could delve into the many linguistic errors in this piece and ask “if you don’t exist why do you use the word ‘I’ so much”. I know, as you now know, that use of a word does not prove the existence of its namesake. We must simply do our best with the limited “selfish” language we were given.

I do not expect you to believe me

In fact I don’t want belief. I want you to discover it for yourself that you have no self (clever, eh?).

I’d like to offer that all we really know for sure is what we are experiencing right now. Memory is fallible, the past and future never come or go. All we can know is our direct experience of what is in the present moment.

With that in mind, I want you to pay direct attention to your experience of life right now.

Take a look at this self, which thinks your thoughts and moves your body. If it truly thinks your thoughts then it must exist apart from those thoughts. Pay attention to your experience; do you experience this self outside of thought?

Sure you have thoughts about the self, but look at experience, do those thoughts come from a self?

More importantly what are each of those thoughts DOING ? Are they trying to convince that there is a self?

I resisted this at first too..

The first thing I thought when I tried this was “Of course there is a self, this is stupid.” However as I watched, I realized that all my thoughts were about a self, but there was no self thinking up the thoughts.
I began to rationalize that I must be the brain because the brain thinks up the thoughts, but it hit me hard between the eyes. I don’t experience the brain thinking up thoughts.
I just experience thoughts arising conditioned by experience. It wasn’t my experience, I wasn’t there thinking the thoughts. There was only experience conditioned thoughts.

Sure there was a body and a mind, but the driver seat was empty. Life was automatic. As I looked around the room I sat in, the haze began to lift. My entire world fell apart. Only, it wasn’t my world and had never been. My whole life made sense, because it was never truly my life.

How has this affected me?

It’s an intense and real freedom, this liberation from erroneous assumption of self. From the time from the thought first entered my head, till my taking a look at the experience of life in that moment was roughly 7 minutes.

In mid September 2010 I saw life for what it is. It’s changed me for the better since. I can see clearly now. I tend not to get caught in emotional feedback loops and the idea of self. I still have it I just see that I have it, and see it for what it is.

Since I got this I’ve dedicated my life to bringing this to other people. I’ve been taking a little break but over the first 6 months I liberated 13 people . I have many friends who also pledged themselves to free this world. It’s hasn’t been easy there have been many ups and downs. We’ve stared into the abyss together and watched the brightest of stars fall from grace. What we do now we do with eyes open, and what we do is open eyes.

All it took was 7 minutes. I’ve seen people do it in 3. All you need to do is to pay attention to your experience of life. Just look.

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So there you go!

Basically what this means is what we already seem to accept on this forum (well those of us that read Tolle). We are not our thoughts, we are the observer. Now take a look at this video:



So basically we are not our brain. Our brain is a computer, a tool for us.

And what the fuck does this mean for us?? We need to learn to program it.

Your brain is the most important tool you will ever need. Without it you would not be able to perceive your enviroment and would be just an entity floating in space. Aswell as perception we use it to make decisions.

As we mature our computer (brain) is automatically programmed by your enviroment. It begins to make associations as to what brings it pain and what brings it pleasure. It is these "neuro associations" that become your habits and what you use to make decisions.

Unfortunately most of us don't grow up in these amazing enviroments where we are thought to always better ourselves and to fulfill our destinies. We are bullied, abused, stepped upon, punished and laughed at when we tell of our dreams. This leads to your brain developing a whole fucking load of negative associations leading to us making fucked-up decisions with the goal of maintaining what pleasure we already have while minimizing the amount of pain we must go through.

What does this mean? We need to learn to re-program our brain like any other computer. We need to break these "neuro-associations" and replace them with new, more positive ones. Instead of getting pleasure from sitting on the couch, watching the tv, we need to break that association/habit and learn to associate pleasure with constantly trying to better yourself and pursuing your dreams. Instead of believing you are judged on your looks, we need to break that belief and replace it with believing that people judge you not solely on your looks but on the aura you give off.

Learn to re-program your brain, read "Awakening the Giant Within" and start living your dreams.

So get out there, start taking action, better yourself and stop being a lazy fucking pussy!



-TheRockPUA