Our body is encased in thought covenants. And you can see it in the children's game of doing this, as I pointed out. If somebody uses thought to point to your finger and you think it, you don't know which finger to move. So you can see the thought coverings are confused by a simple left-right exchange. This finger remains the same finger, but when I put it here, it's mixed up because it's actually known through thought covers. And when you drop thought coverings, you experience your body differently.

[01:01]

So views, the surface of views, control the experience, shape the experience of our body. So die Oberfläche unserer Ansichten, die Formen auch unserer Erfahrungen vom Körper. And one of the things if you practice don't scratch. Und eine der Dinge, die du praktizierst, wenn du nicht kratzen übst. And you find yourself in a stillness beyond any scratches. Und du findest dich selbst wieder in der Ruhe, die jenseits aller kratzen. you find the boundaries of your body aren't so clear, you know. You feel the body more as a presence than as something limited to your physical shape.

[02:07]

Then limited to your physical shape. And this is something you can't even notice if you're in your thought coverings. Oh, it's only a dream. Or it's something, yeah, it's just some kind of strange effect. But if you can think outside your cultural habits. You say, hey, this is also my body. It feels like my body. But it's not limited to my physical shape. Let's call it a bodily presence. in contrast to a physical body.

[03:20]

Oh, so my body, I have a much more subtle sense of body than I had before. What is this body? Yeah, and those are again questions that you bring into, without trying to make the shoe fit, in meditation. Yeah. So what was the first part of what you said, Giorgio? I only responded to the Dalai Lama statement. Oh, self, yes, okay. I remember now.

[04:21]

Where does it come from? I remember. Extinction, first of extinction. Okay. To respond to that, I would have to speak to our sense of the self as an entity. And I don't want to... And I can say that entitylessness is a way to understand emptiness. But what do I mean by entity in that lesson? We're getting too deep here already. We're all just beginners. This is getting too complicated. We're going to get into a reject any new worldviews state of mind.

[05:31]

But if the fundamental teaching of Buddhism is that there are no entities, which is simply to say things are impermanent, But if you say they're impermanent, oh, you intellectually can understand that everything's changing. That doesn't teach you much. You can't practice with impermanence, exactly. But if there are no entities... then self is not an entity.

[06:36]

Then self is a function. And where does it function? It has to have a territory in which to function. What's the territory of self? Now, I'm not trying to describe the conflated sense of self in Western psychology, where soul and spirit and so forth have all kind of disappeared into some kind of idea of self. I'm speaking about self as we understand it in Buddhist practice. I think I laid out this small definition last year here. Consciousness is a function of mind.

[07:51]

Self is a function of consciousness. And ego, if we want to be contemporary, is a function of self. So if self is a function of consciousness, In other words, the medium of self, the water of self, is consciousness. Self swims in consciousness. So from the point of view of Buddhism, some kind of self that's not in consciousness is not self. It may have an observing or knowing function, but we wouldn't call it self.

[08:53]

We can call it a deeper self or something like that. But the self that Buddhism is talking about you should get free of is the self of consciousness. You don't want to identify with, as you, the self that's limited to consciousness. So some kind of deeper self That's not a problem. So where does it come from and how do you trust this knowledge? I think that takes another seminar. At least it takes us to have a lunch, a finished lunch. But since we have a couple of minutes, let me just say, because we're going to have lunch in six minutes, let me say something about entitylessness.

[10:06]

The entity of blood should be quite good. So, let's sit for a minute. Where's the entity of the bell? Wo ist die Einheit der Glocke? Is it the metal of the bell? Ist es das Metall der Glocke? Is it my hitting it?

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Is it the capacity of the air to transmit sound that you're hearing? Is it the capacity of your ear or your brain? Is it the capacity of your ear or your brain Or is it the molecules of the copper and tin? Or is it the mind of the craftsman who made the bell? Or is it our liking or joy in hearing it? All of these are part of the bell.

[12:47]

Where is the bell itself? Where is your breathing? Papa, why aren't you with me? Thank you for being with each other and with me.

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Thank you for translating.

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