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The notion of a non-self.
I would like to interchange about a feeling/notion of a non-self. I 'know' with my head that this is common in Buddhism, but it is new for me to feel and encounter this in my own way of being in some moments. I try to understand what I feel, but I need others for this!
We all have a body, a story/history, social, mental and psychological patters who gives us a feeling of an Ego, a self, a personality: "me". This feeling is strong: we use it all days, but it is not enough to be inspired and satisfited, to feel and encounter the existential dimensions of life: it is too little, too isolated, too egocentric. Sometimes I feel something bigger around and trough me on a non-dualistic way, connected with the universe and my heart. It seems as if this uses my ego/body/mind as a possibility or an expedient to be able to live on a non-self way connected with the world. It's open to life and all sentient beings, feels as love on a unconditional way, feels wholesome and wise. It has a connection with my (illusion?) of self, but it is much more, with an other source and inspiration...is this a feeling of non-self?
I try carefully to describe this, but I'm very precarious to talk about it: words are never exact. But I like to hear experiences of others...so I ask for it. Namo Amida Bu
We all have a body, a story/history, social, mental and psychological patters who gives us a feeling of an Ego, a self, a personality: "me". This feeling is strong: we use it all days, but it is not enough to be inspired and satisfited, to feel and encounter the existential dimensions of life: it is too little, too isolated, too egocentric. Sometimes I feel something bigger around and trough me on a non-dualistic way, connected with the universe and my heart. It seems as if this uses my ego/body/mind as a possibility or an expedient to be able to live on a non-self way connected with the world. It's open to life and all sentient beings, feels as love on a unconditional way, feels wholesome and wise. It has a connection with my (illusion?) of self, but it is much more, with an other source and inspiration...is this a feeling of non-self?
I try carefully to describe this, but I'm very precarious to talk about it: words are never exact. But I like to hear experiences of others...so I ask for it. Namo Amida Bu
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