I am not there yet!

Reposted from KAT:

A scientific method

Believing “I’m not there yet” is a form of self-protection. It’s all that’s in the way of knowing that you already are “there.”

We could instead adopt the belief that there is no self, and that everything is undivided, eternal, infinite Awareness.

But that would just be another belief to hold onto.

Remember the scientific method?

That’s where the world is explored through observation and trial and error, instead of jumping to conclusions or believing something.

In the scientific method a hypothesis is formed. Then experiments are designed and conducted to test it.

So we could take the hypothesis that there is no self (or that there is one) and test it through direct observation.

Can we ever observe, notice, or find a separate self in direct experience? Is there any data, any evidence for a self?

We become a scientist of the self.

If this happens, it eventually becomes obvious that there is no one.

We never prove it.

In yet another paradox of the nondual it is realized that the one trying to prove it isn’t there.

This method of testing the existence of the separate self is ancient. It’s called nondual (self-)inquiry.

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