Aryeh Nielsen. Searchless Responsiveness
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«Grammatically, “self” is an indexical (a contextual pointing word, like “here”).

There is no permanent “here.” Often, it is irrelevant where “here” is.

In phrases like “pass me the salt,” “me” points to a body.

In, “the dress looks teal to me,” “me” points to sensation of a body.

The “error” is mistaking a useful pointing function for being a permanent, separate, continuous, and defined entity.

There is no such this as a self. The article “a” implies an entity.

There is merely self, as a possibility to usefully point to.

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Since state of being depends on pattern of interaction, the stability of “I,” like the stability of “here,” is dependent on stability of context.

“The Search” could be elaborated as the search for stabilizing a desired pattern of selfing, also known as ‘self-contraction’, that is, contraction of awareness around a particular pattern of selfing in an attempt to stabilize it.

The root ‘problem’ with ‘the search’ is that stabilizing a pattern of selfing entails a loss of responsivity to what is happening.»