/lit/ - Literature

>Here's how to think about non-self: as the sum of all vectors of the physical envelope, the convergence of all lines, that by which my phenomenology can be said to be happening "behind my back". In fact, there must be a back - an indissoluble obscurity behind phenomena - for there to be phenomena. There are parallels to draw here to Heidegger's lichtung, where non-self is that in virtue of which I am revealed to myself as my self-revealing. Representations flicker across the center that I am, and the less evolved, more diffuse centers reflexively identify with these representations, meaning their consciousness of some phenomenological property is "internal" to that property as long as they are unable to get outside.

>Mind-fullness is being external to the algorithms of one's representations.

>I recognize an irreducibility in me that is one essence with the insubstantiality of phenomena. All suffering is ignorance, and all ignorance is this nature fleeing from itself. Praxis here is something like a centrifugal self-consolidation: I am most grounded in myself when I am not desperately trying to contract in on some imperturbable, hard kernel of identity. I am most my Self in my relinquishing of any pretense to being a self. The loss of the small self is the gain of independence from it. A negative plenitude.