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the interior version of the not-self

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looking inside your mind

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observing feelings and ideas

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not identifying with them

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the exterior version of the not-self

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getting the sense that the bounds of your body are more permeable and porous than you might have thought

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the boundaries are not so solid

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there's more of an interaction with the world out there

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it's a more fluid interaction than you might have appreciated

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our realities are a confluence of connections, interactions and relationships

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we normally think of ourselves as acting on the world

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but actually the world acts on us quite a bit

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much of our behavior and thoughts are a consequences of things that have impinged upon us

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in this sense our behavior if a form of output in response to all this input

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there's less room for an autonomous self which is generating and initiating thought

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a feeling that you have in your body is no more a part of your self than a sound you hear outside, since depending on what they rae, they both can influence you in a variety of ways with on wide spectrum of intensity

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both send signals to your brain

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that one is inside your body and one outside

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more of an arbitrary difference than a fundamental difference when you consider how much impact each can have on how your self responds and what it becomes

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becoming conscious of these boundaries dissolving can be a peaceful and freeing experience

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your sensory apparatus no longer seems like such a fine dividing point

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one can identify with others as one identifies with oneself

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one need not even identify with any of them

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there is just an empty, slow presence here

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if you're nothing, you are everything

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it sounds cryptic

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a bird's song that you hear can be just as much a part of you as the tingling in your foot

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and the tingling in your foot does not have to be a part of you to begin with

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one disaggregates the self internally

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one sees things outside the body as much a part of you as those experiences coming from inside the body

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moral implications

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not so much waves of empathy for other human beings, but more identifying with them

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since you identify more often with the world outside you, there is less reason to harm that part of reality

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if everyone were to meditate regularly and identify themselves as being the inseparable from the world

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can give people the feeling that not harming things is just the logical thing to do