There is so much pain in identifying as a separate self…

“There is so much pain in identifying as a separate self, in believing that the story of you and your life has any substance worth holding onto. This makes misery. Not only in the mind but in the body, because they are not separate. Untrue beliefs (such as the usefulness of worrying about the past or future) contract the system, and the body pays the price with tension and pain. Hell is not some place we might go when we die, hell is right now believing that the stories in the mind (‘my’ mind or someone else’s) are real. Relief from hell is seeing how there is no one there to take anything personally!”

(Source: http://liberationunleashed.com/nation/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=399&start=210)

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Do you know what perception is and how it works? Perception is a collection of memories that massages the data received when a stimulus occurs, before the data go to the brain for processing. Perception is that frame of reference, the bias we all develop that judges and alters our experiences. And because every stimulus creates data that are perceived before being sent to the brain for processing, we can never actually see reality for what it is, our perception will always shape our experience to… More fit our memories.

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There is so much pain in identifying as a separate self…

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