Overwhelmed, fooled &
deceived by simple Sensing!
Touched by contact, while blinded by ignorance, the unlearned and
untrained ordinary person conceives this false & fatal assumption:
'By my eye, ear, nose, tongue and body I clearly sense this & that!
Therefore "I am"! I perceive this & that: Therefore "Do I Exist".!
I feel this & that: Therefore "These feelings are mine and me".....!
I experience this & that: Therefore "These experiences I am"......!'
Then he proliferates this self-deception even further by breeding:
"I am this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind!" right here & now.
"I always was & have been this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind!"
"In the future, I will be this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind!"
"I am this form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!"
"I was this form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!"
"I will be form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!"
Thereby consolidating the false & constructed notion of a stable Ego!
Finally he externalizes this non-existent entity 'Me' by comparing it:
"I am equal to this and that...", and "I am better than this and that...",
"I am worse than this and that...", thereby creating first egoism, then
pride and arrogance, and moreover detrimental feeling of inferiority...
Clinging to this hypothetical 'I'-idea, which he mistakes for real, he
becomes desperate, when whatever it is, he identifies with, changes,
decays, becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears...
He is terrified by the thought: "It is 'I' & 'Me' who changes, decays,
becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears..." So big is the
power of this unnoticed idea, that it produces fear, anxiety & horror!!!
There arises no such great panic, when one understands it as it really is:
The six inputs by the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind are not mine,
this is not what I am, this neither is nor belongs to my or any other self!
This form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness is not mine,
this is not what I am, this neither is nor belongs to my or any other self!
