The owner is an illusion.

“I would say that it is the biggest unquestioned assumption ever! I would say that if you really look carefully you will discover that me is just a word/thought.There is not such thing as an individual I separated from life. There is a body, a brain, feelings, thoughts, but there is no owner of them. The owner is an illusion. And this illusion can be seen for what it is.We think we are individuals with free will. But there is no individual and there is no free will.Life happens, the world happens.No one is in control. There are also scientific experiments regarding the illusion of control. There is no controller. I would say that the illusion of self is not destroyed but is possible to see that it is an illusion.”

(Source: http://liberationunleashed.com/nation/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=683&start=15)

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Try raising your hand again. Look at it very closely. Did a thought “own” that? Was it a self that chose to do that? Now, pretend someone just threw a ball at your head. Watch the hand move, very quickly. Does the hand “choose” to come up and catch the ball? Or does it just rise and catch it, without a thought? Now, raise your hand and move it to the left, then to the right. Watch the thoughts. Look for a self, something which is not just a thought, which is able to move your hand. Check… More and see where a story attaches to that thought, where “I raise my hand” comes in. Before, during, or after the raising?

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This is not the typical book about awakenings nor is it written by enlightened masters, it is about ordinary people daring to investigate for themselves whether there is a self; looking to see what is behind the word "I", what is "me". More

The owner is an illusion.

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