Self = Habit = Teacher

What we call ‘self’ / ‘me’ / ‘I’ is merely an habitual identity made up of thoughts which consciousness adheres to. It’s like putting on a familiar coat and a calling that ‘me’. 🙂

Thought: an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.

Not so; it’s been lurking there for eons, and has no reality.

Every time we use the word ‘I’, we (consciousness) reinforce this habitual identity, and so we live in a cycle of existence motivated by memories. We are walking, talking bio-mechanical automata going through our predictable motions – and emotions. ‘I’ is the on-switch!

The world isn’t a happy place. It’s a place of mechanical obsessions, where we only exist by judging whether this moment is pleasant or unpleasant, rough or smooth. Just like one of those robotic floor cleaners. 😀

To become free of this restricted existence, we acknowledge that this self is the cause of our constant unease, anxiety, suffering and bickering.

The first step is to recognise that we are stuck in an illusion of self
– in the same way as everyone else.

Acknowledging this habit, this habit becomes our teacher,
showing consciousness its fixations.

And there we are in that moment … free!