The self is a disruptive, false, and, as such, unnecessary metaphor for the process of awareness and knowing: when we awaken to knowing, we realize that all that goes on in us is a flow of “thoughts without a thinker.”
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Why think about the self being optional then? When we focus too heavily on the self, our life often gets worse not better. Think of how you feel when you’re focusing on yourself more than others. You typically feel selfish. Your world grows smaller. How do you feel when you focus on others? You often feel generous. Your world gets bigger. Humans have a fundamental need for social connections. When we feed that social beast, we feel more human. The world makes sense. When we focus inward, we shrink a bit of our humanity. Articles about SELF: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=self 
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THE problem of the self - what it is that makes you you - has exercised philosophers and theologians for millennia. Today it is also a hotly contested scientific question, and the science is confirming what the Buddha, Scottish philosopher David Hume and many other thinkers maintained: that there is no concrete identity at the core of our being, and that our sense of self is an illusion spun from narratives we construct about our lives. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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noetic
This new book presents a groundbreaking dialogue that took place in 2005 between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading researchers and teachers from both Eastern and Western traditions. The event was sponsored by the Mind & Life Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit that studies the intersection of science and meditation; this was its second such public meeting following a similar 2003 gathering at MIT. The excerpt below comes from the book’s Epilogue, which summarizes in scholarly fashion various clinical and basic studies on meditation published between 2006 and 2011.
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