Enter the Void

Follow the “I” all the way in.There is an assumption running underneath almost everything:There is someone here.Someone who thinks.
Someone who feels.
Someone who chooses.
Someone who watches.
Someone who experiences life.It feels so obvious that it rarely gets questioned.But what happens when you follow this “I” all the way in?The body appears.
Thoughts appear.
Sensations appear.
Memories appear.
Images appear.
Sounds appear.Everything you can point to is already appearing.But where is the one to whom it is all happening?

You may feel that there is someone behind the eyes, looking out at the world.
Look for that someone.Where exactly is the observer?
If you find a sensation, it is appearing.
If you find an image, it is appearing.
If you find a thought saying “I am observing,” that thought is appearing too.
The observer keeps becoming another thing that can be observed.

THE AUTHOR

Something happens.Then the story arrives:I decided.
I did it.
I thought that.
I made this happen.But where was the author before the event?A thought appears.An action appears.Then ownership appears.The narrator arrives late and claims the story as its own.

THE EXPERIENCER

You can experience the body.You can experience thoughts.You can experience emotions.You can experience the image you have of yourself.But can you ever experience the one who is supposedly experiencing all of this?Try.Not through memory.
Not through a description.
Not through another concept.Look for the experiencer itself.

THE DISSOLUTION

The deeper you look, the more difficult it becomes to locate the person you assumed was standing at the centre of everything.The thinker becomes a thought.The observer becomes something observed.The author becomes part of the story.The owner cannot be located.And even the idea of “awareness” can become another place for the “I” to hide.So don’t replace the old identity with a new one.Don’t turn the Void into another concept.Follow the “I” all the way in.See what remains when there is no one left to hold it.