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> I experienced a deep realisation that our thoughts manifest from nowhere and not from ourselves (words fail me here) and that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment.

Wait, is this not common knowledge??

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Knowledge is not the same thing as insight, and experiencing what the parent comment describes is something that most people never attempt (or even realize there is something to attempt).

Having a philosophical/intellectual conversation about the nature of mind is very different than your own mind wrapping itself around these concepts directly.

It's a common argument, which may or may not be true if it can be properly defined at all.

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