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View submission: Experience of duality and self during meditation
And I very acutely experienced that it was an *I* that was doing it, volitionally.
So there is an experiencer “I” apart from a doer “I”. Which of these is the one you identified as the “shining core me”?
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I experienced my freedom of will, and I experienced my self as the source of that freedom of will. It was as if there was some shining core me, and that shining core me was expressing itself in the volitional act of resisting the urge to get up.
Why not express the freedom to will the pain away instead of resisting an urge? Do you have the freedom to do that instead?
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It’s actually great that you are noticing these things in meditation. Part of the point of meditation is to investigate these phenomena.
If there’s enough stability of concentration, might want to observe how personal identification shifts from the various “I” and “me”.
Can also examine how the sense of agency works with regards to the supposed “doer”. What is the extent and limit, and how much of it is a conceptual sense applied retroactively through afterthought.
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