AnEternalNow
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If Presence/Consciousness is taken to be permanent, independent, an ultimate Seer, that is precisely what I call "taking up a self-view".I got this self proclaimed definition from EternalNow's blog.
The view of a self means believing or holding the view that there is an independent, unchanging, self-entity that persists from one moment to the next and one lifetime to another, and is the agent, controller or experiencer of stuff in life. "Self" thus has the quality of permanency, independence, separateness (separate from the flow of experiences), and agenthood (being the controller, perceiver, experiencer of things). If there is any such thing, it could qualify as Self.
That is only the ego thought and not the Self. As such the above definition seems to display a confusion between self and Self. IMO, the absurd claims in this thread stem from this erroneous idea of what self and Self are.
This self-view is to be abandoned by true insight into anatta, even though the experience is not being denied. Furthermore, this luminosity is experienced as all foreground manifestation and not just as a background source. The 'background' is realized to be just a dead image captured about Presence, where in reality no background-foreground dichotomy is present.
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