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lems the body s remarkable degree of organisation isn t magic it s not evidence for some kind of special solidifying quality that keeps everything together it all breaks down to individual cells individual combinations of cells and individual processes caused by combinations of cells which natural selection has caused to always reproduce in very roughly the same ways because the ones that didn t died too soon the filter is gone when you see that the body is nothing more than another set of patterns and more patterns in this case of molecules and cells rather than of thoughts etc and that the dividing line between it and the patterns which form the external environment is purely imaginary 3 you have seen that you do not exist not only is there no self there is no single person on any level except as a mental label for a set of interconnected processes now do the same for your perception of other people you may have to start by taking the original insight of liberation and applying it to other people first remember what you took a self to be and how you looked to see if it was there now do the exact same thing but look for that self in the people around you is it there once you ve removed that initial filter see if there is any more of a single solid person when you look at others than when you look at yourself the filter is gone when you see that there are no solid coherent consistent people any more than there is a solid coherent consistent you this tech is very new and unrefined so i don t know how effective my instructions are i cracked it on my own from scratch and my partner was talked through it by phone so whether i m doing it right by text is as yet unknown hopefully people will give this their best shot and report back what i will say is that based on our experience making it this far brings benefits comparable in scale to the original liberation itself it still doesn t cure human suffering but it does appear to significantly reduce the duration of negative emotional feedback loops and has a variety of other interesting effects as well spread this share 0 comments friday 5 august 2011 what about an invisible self 14 45 posted by alexei edit post possibilities for seeing the self break up into two distinct categories 1 the self is available to perception this one is easy try to perceive it and you will find that it s nowhere to be found because it doesn t exist 2 the self is such a thing that it cannot be perceived by its very nature there s this thing that happens where i write a really long refutation of something and only right when i finish do i see a much quicker and simpler way to do the same thing and end up deleting the original post that just happened so turns out this one is easy too if the self cannot be perceived then there can be no such thing as self awareness simple as that think it through you ll find it holds up any which way spread this share 4 comments thursday 28 july 2011 no self and what it really means 15 04 posted by alexei edit post there is no i we all know it if you don t check it out for yourself can you find it anywhere in your experience but i ve only just come to appreciate how far that goes when you realise that there is no self all that is left over all that s actually shown to be real is the personality behaviour patterns ego according to some uses of the term actually even that is a fiction what is a human being just a set of patterns a certain proportion of those patterns is physical matter arranged in specific ways and interacting in specific ways these patterns are organs chemical exchanges organ systems exactly where we draw the line between them is entirely subjective for example you could call the stomach a pattern or you could separate it into its biological constituents the various ways it interacts with other organs and so on all the way down to individual subatomic particles it may seem strange to think of something physical as a pattern but it works google gives one definition as a regular and intelligible form or sequence discernible in certain actions or situations and i think that s fair at any rate bear with me the essential thing is that although these patterns are interconnected and some rely on others to exist or function at all they have no inherent property of being part of one thing except insofar as we define them as constituting a single body for example suppose we introduce a pacemaker into the system it is interconnected with the other patterns and many will rely on it to function the heart for a start we can even make a feedback loop so it relies on them as well by having it detect the heart rate and adjust accordingly but this doesn t invest the pacemaker with a property of body ness to take another example try a dialysis machine you could be hooked up to a big one outside your body or we could somehow minimise it and make it ultra efficient so it fitted inside you it would effectively function as an extra organ either way but we would not be magically making it cross a you not you barrier just by making mechanical modifications we could even find out that a foetus had a lethal kidney problem and implant our micro dialysis machine in it before birth there would still be no you not you barrier being crossed the point i m trying to make is that there is no objective criterion according to which the patterns which make up the human body constitute a single continuous thing there is no bodyness attribute any more than building a lego house gives a houseness attribute to the lego blocks the decision to demarcate a certain combination of patterns as alexei and to treat further alterations to that combination of patterns as alexei changing is a mental one which doesn t reflect anything about actual reality now we go from the hard part to the easy one behaviour patterns that which we call personality work in exactly the same way there is no fixed entity created by a particular combination of thought and behaviour patterns there is no fixed alexei only a load of tendencies encapsulated as neural patterns in the brain of these tendencies only a few at a time are being expressed and there is no inherent reason why those being expressed at one time should relate to those being expressed at another in other words there is no such thing as acting out of character there is no objective reason why a person s thoughts or actions should be consistent sometimes they are and sometimes they aren t depending on which patterns are being triggered when if you know a person s dominant i e most frequently triggering patterns and you know what their triggers are you can predict their behaviour to a certain extent but you re not actually predicting a person you re predicting a pattern there s no person there apart from the patterns that exist at any given moment putting it another way if a pattern is 1 and a person is 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 there is no fiveness no special quality that makes the whole in any way whatsoever more than the sum of the parts yes patterns interact which is to say some trigger others and some rely on others to be triggered at all the ways in which they do so are staggeringly complex and remember exactly where you draw the lines between different patterns is entirely subjective but in the end those patterns are all there is the fact that a certain set of patterns is labelled alexei and that a certain subset of them is labelled alexei s body is just the activity of more patterns this is a portuguese man o war jellyfish it looks like a single living being it s not it s a colony of lots and lots of individual living beings called zooids the zooids are highly specialised and could not survive if they were detached from the colony but they are very definitely individual creatures you look like a single living being you re not you are made of countless patterns these patterns are highly specialised depending on where you draw the lines between them most could not survive or in the case of non physical ones exist at all apart from the rest yet they are very definitely individual patterns sure you could say i am one very large pattern and since the lines are subjective that s a legitimate response but it s no less subjective than the rest your thoughts are part of that pattern right but they re triggered by the environment and could not exist without it so is the environment part of the pattern too you would die without food but food is just like thought it might turn up or it might not and this depends both on the actions of the organism and on the environment so is food part of the you pattern and so on the lines between the patterns are arbitrary you can draw them around individual organs of the body you can draw them around individual bodies or you can draw one line that includes the totality of the universe but no amount of drawing will change what s actually true and what s actually true is that there is an arbitrary number of individual patterns interacting and interdependent with nothing holding them together except those interactions and interdependencies some of these patterns give names and labels to other patterns but that doesn t make the names and labels any more real a human being is a mental abstraction a label given to a set of patterns the patterns themselves are constantly changing and the pretence of continuity or consistency is just that a label that doesn t reflect reality look again at the portuguese man o war that s what you are a colony of patterns a few of which are shouting i exist as one distinct individual there is no you this is how deep it goes spread this share 3 comments on the impossibility of free will 14 00 posted by alexei edit post today i would like to ask you to perform an experiment a word of warning first if you re not yet free of the delusion of self or failing that particularly emotionally stable don t do this one until you re free if you think that its implications apply to a you that exists it could be genuinely depressing and your mental health matters to me in a sense its improvement is what this blog is all about so the experiment what i d like to ask you to do is to look around your experience and observe your thoughts and actions there are two questions you need to answer 1 am i consciously constructing any of my thoughts or are they all arriving in consciousness ready made 2 am i noticing my actions while they are still at decision level or are they already beginning when i notice them take some time what you re trying to do is identify whether there is a gap between the state of no thought no action and the state of thought arising action taking place a gap in which you consciously cause the thought or action i can t find one i d already realised that thoughts always arrive in consciousness so to speak fully formed as verbal sentences or visual images or physical sensations and that therefore there is no room for me to be involved in constructing them now i ve come to see that the same is true of actions by the time i notice an action taking place it s already begun that means even if there was an i capable of volition there would simply be no room no opportunity for it to exercise it by the time something s happening it is too late all that can happen on a conscious level is a thought of taking credit again make sure you check this out for yourself be rigorous can you notice a thought or action before it s in progress or is it already happening by the time you become aware of it don t take your thoughts on the matter at their word check thoroughly for me this has been the biggest realisation since no self so far realisation as in a thing that actually permanently alters how i experience the world rather than an insight which i use to refer to new intellectual understandings not only is there no me to be responsible for thoughts and actions it isn t even theoretically possible for a me to do so if it existed one more thing we often think that we have a thought and then we act on that thought this is not the case thoughts do not cause actions test this by performing actions without thinking about them first such as scratching your nose helping yourself to a snack from an open container or diving in front of a truck to push a loved one out of the way so there is no gap in which thoughts are constructed or decisions are transformed into actions is this true spread this share 0 comments monday 25 july 2011 there is no self redux 12 56 posted by alexei edit post ok people you already know i hope a really obvious truth there is no self if you don t check it out in your own experience can you find an i as an actual thing anywhere or are you just taking its existence for granted now there is something that people who have grasped that there is no self often trip up on it is this there is no self yeah really not where you d expect to have a problem at this stage is it here s how it works many liberated talk about the false self or the self constructed by thoughts or the concept of self these things don t exist really check it out there is a belief hopefully by now recognised as false the self exists there are lots of other beliefs about the self like the self has free will the self observes reality the self believes that pokemon is for kids the self despairs of british politics etc you can substitute i for the self to make these beliefs sound more familiar but notice this they are all beliefs about the self there is no actual concept belief or thought which is the self compare angels the concept of angel is made up of other concepts person wings halo white robe heaven etc but it is an actual concrete concept you can imagine angels in and of themselves or take a moral law like stealing is wrong it s abstract you can t visualise it or anything but it is an actual distinct concept it exists as a concrete thought the self doesn t it s not a concept the way angels and moral laws are concepts it s a pointer to a thing which isn t there on any level in any sense like the it in it s raining so whatever beliefs you have about liberation and the self rethink them there is no self it is fully as true on the level of fiction as on the level of reality nbsp spread this share 0 comments friday 22 july 2011 demolishing the stairway to heaven 12 41 posted by alexei edit post a particularly courageous gentleman who is trying his hardest to find out whether there is a self even as we speak reminded me of a classic objection to no self and the work of ruthless truth today here it is you claim that no self is the highest realisation when this is patently not true there are higher realisations beyond it no self is not enlightenment only the first step on the path i would like to address this objection in detail there is a simple reason why no one in rt claims that no self is the highest realisation here it is truth is not hierarchical it doesn t come in levels let me repeat that truth doesn t come in levels truth can be discovered you can d...