Reply To: Y2Q17) The producer of my own experience

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Manita Roose
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I am addicted (very dedicated) to believing in being and having a permanent, unitary and independent self. Nobody can create the thought of this self, but me. I produce the experience of this permanent, unitary and independent self. I looked. I couldn’t find a self/I. So if it doesn’t exist, how come that I think that I have/or I am this self? The logical explanation is that I am the producer of the experience of this self/I.
But please don’t ask me what “I am the producer” means. It’s a very interesting question Rik. I’ve been chewing on it for a couple of days and I’m not finished. To be continued…