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View submission: Experience of duality and self during meditation
Congratulations! Any experience of duality means eventually you’ll be able to identify it, isolate it then see it pass into non-duality. I still struggle with even seeing duality in my way of perceiving objects.
Comment by justawhistlestop at 20/02/2025 at 19:08 UTC
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Your experience reminded me of Henry Shukman describing one of his kenshos.
Then another deep gust traveled slowly through the pines across the meadow. It caught my attention. It was fascinating. And suddenly something happened.
The knee pain was still there, the sound of the wind was still there, but there was no one experiencing them. It was the strangest thing. There was no me. The very center of my being, the core of my life, vanished. I vanished. Where had I gone? What had happened to me? Where I used to be, there was just a broad openness. All things were happening just as before, nothing had really changed, yet everything had changed, because there was no me to whom everything was happening. It was as if a flashbulb had gone off in my skull, and that’s what it suddenly illuminated: no me. The idea of “me” had been just that—an idea. Now it had burst like a bubble.
The relief was indescribable. All the worrying, all the fretting—and all along there had been no one home. Life was a ship, and I had assumed it had a captain. But the ship had no captain. There was no one on board.
Edited to add the first paragraph to the quote