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Not!

You are not the body. You are not the mind, not the thoughts that you are thinking, not the emotions that you are feeling. You are not the sensations, the perceptions. Not.

Perhaps you are the awareness that is conscious of these perceptions and feelings and emotions and thoughts. Not! You are not awareness. You are not.

Perhaps you are God. Not! Is there a god? Not! Is there no god? Not! What am I? No!. Am I nothing? Not! Am I everything? Not!

And then some thoughts creep back in, like ripples on the pond, and they are gone, as a bird takes flight and disappears.

Not