>>13707517ok i will attempt it.
right now, you believe you are a 'person' reading a text.
an enlightened person wouldnt do that, for him he would experience the experience of reading a text.
youve asked the hardest question in the world. let me try again.
the reason you think you are a 'person', a 'body', a 'soul' etc is because you have not meditated enough.
you have to look at EXPERIENCE in order to know what it is...
if you do, you will find that experience is just thought -> feeling -> visual experience -> body experience -> feeling -> thought -> ad infinitum in any order possible...
if you do you will discover that the previous begets the next... and that it is a necessary and unavoidable consequence of the previous. you will also notice that it is really the same 'energy' that becomes "thought", "feeling" "visual experience", etc... that is to say they are only differently "colored"...
this will mean nothing to you unless you meditate and see it for yourself.
so an enlightened person does not believe he is a "person doing actions" for example, or a "person feeling something"... because he can see constantly the action-reaction energy that lead to an "action" or "reaction", and he cannot see an individual agent anywhere...
even with so-called "external" phenomena, he sees that "external" phenomena has the exact same effect on "his" actions or thoughts as "internal" phenomena... he cannot find a "person" anywhere... all he can see is smell, visual experience, bodily experience, thought, feeling, taste, sounds...
TL;DR: We think we are "persons experiencing the world" but this runs counter to actual experience!!
