Q: This emptiness still feels like “me.”

A: It is you! But it is not an identity.

Q: It’s as if “I” have become identified with awareness, so that it seems like a personal awareness to which the world appears.

A: Exactly! This is the mistake. Why can’t you see or undo the mistake? Because you’re inventing yet another “I” who needs to undo this mistake!

You have dropped the grosser forms of identification – the body, the thoughts, etc. – but now the same identification error continues, just on a subtler level. Now, you are thinking of “I” as a “this” which needs to get un-identified with awareness! You’re really inventing another, subtler form of “I” – this one is “the I that is not yet free of identification with awareness.” There is no end to the number of “I”s that can be invented, each one subtler than the next.

What you are is none of those “I”s. This sense of being here – can it just be, without being identified with?

If it is not identified with, does it go away?

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