The sense of self and the boundaries between self and other are useful conventions for navigating the world and communication, but we become so conditioned to believe these conventions are ultimately real that we constrain our freedom and ability to access non-dual experience.
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“this is a very useful creation right for us to be able to navigate the world not bump into things for instance stable to have a conversation and say oh yes you're a human being over there I'm a human being over here this is a chair that I'm sitting on the problem is these are all just conventions that are useful for many many contexts but we're so conditioned to believing that they're actually real that they constrain our ability to be truly free”
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The Secret To True Happiness = Seeing That The Self Is An Illusion (Here's Why)— The Magic of Mindful Self-AwarenessCreated: 8/13/2026, 9:56:39 AM
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