Ilona & Will Pye (Video)

The mind labels everything that it focuses on. Look around the room slowly. Notice how mind immediately starts telling stories and names things. When we acquire language, the mind learns to label actions: “I walk,” “I talk,” “I type,” “I breathe,” “I digest,” “I sleep,” etc. If you change these labels to: “walking,” “talking,” “typing,” “breathing,” what happens? Is there an actual “I” that does the actions, or is it just a word that is serving as subject… Mehr in the label? Is there a subject in doing? While watching breathing, is there an “I” that breathes? Is there an “I” that wakes up in the morning? Is there an “I” that goes to sleep? Is there an “I” in any doing?

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