You are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing.

Like all phenomenon you arise due to your constituent cause and conditions. Like all phenomenon, you are ephemeral and empty without independent eternal inner self of any kind.

Idea of being eternal self or spirit of any kind is poetic imagination giving rise to self-ignorance. Feeling of being eternal self or spirit of any kind is illusion giving rise to self-ignorance.

Fully aware, you are the spirit of knowing. Fully aware, you know correctly in the right context as it is. Fully aware, you are free from ignorance, including self-ignorance.

Fully aware and detached you are undivided whole, integrated and complete without getting controlled by effects of known and unknown.

Fully aware and detached, you are self-aware or aware of being aware without self. Detached self-awareness without self is reflecting awareness dissociated from the known and unknown.

Detached Awareness Without the Self is Self-Knowledge

You are product of your constituent cause and conditions since there is no supreme creator. You become your tangible and intangible actions since there is no eternal self of any kind. You get recycled to continue in the impact of your intentional actions since there is no next birth.

There is no supreme creator because there is no fraction or factor representing supreme creator with will or wish common to particle of universe except energy; however, energy has no independent will or wish. There is no eternal self because everything disintegrates, disperses and gets recycled.

You are awareness, the ephemeral natural phenomenon of knowing, arising due to dynamic interaction of your indispensable constituent cause and conditions including but not limited to processes of life, actions and effects of your intentional actions.

As conditions of life mature and improve, you as awareness, reflect and seem detached from known and unknown thus making you self-aware. Self-awareness is phenomenon of reflecting awareness of being aware detached from the known and unknown.

Naturally, you do not exist in any way independent of your constituent cause and conditions. In your imagination and hallucination, you may believe yourself to exist as eternal immortal inner self or the Self in association with artificial ideas like name, gender, class, caste, age, nationality, race religion, beliefs, ideas of eternal self, etc.. out of self-ignorance.

Detached awareness which may also seem like your state of awareness of being aware results into self-knowledge in form of self-awareness without the Self.

Through your state of detached awareness due to true self knowledge, you can know correctly in the right context as it is without getting influenced by effect of the known or unknown.

Awareness is natural phenomenon of knowing whereas the Self or feeling of being inner self is due to ignorance, psychological burden, physiological clench and stress.

No Self

Like horizon, rainbow or brightness of light, all phenomena are impermanent and empty without their constituent cause and conditions. This can be naturally known, verified, validated, proven, applied, demonstrated, or atleast known by everyone through their own experience and understanding.

The fact that you are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions, is as self-evident as the natural truth of pain, disease, old age and death. Whereas the idea of being independent inner eternal self that is judged by supreme creator & controller in the afterlife are poetic imaginations and big lies.

Life can neither be independent of it’s constituent cause and conditions nor exist beyond disintegration of it’s constituent cause and conditions. Life is ephemeral and empty. You cannot exist in any way without your indispensable constituent cause and conditions.

There is no eternal immortal inner self independent of it’s constituent cause and conditions. There is no real natural “the Self” based on self-conception, self-ideation or self-identification through association with artificial ideas like name, relation, race, class, caste, religion, gender, nationality etc.. Due to the Self and belief in eternal inner-self, you may live and act self-ignorantly.

As the Self, you may live rigidly according to self-conception, self-identification or self-ideation disharmoniously and at odds or in conflict with the reality of cause and conditions. As eternal inner self, you may not value present life and waste your present in anticipation of afterlife. Wasted and spoilt present can give rise to spoilt future due to ignorance.

Self and feeling of being inner self is due to association with known and unknown, whereas your state of detached awareness is due to harmoniously integrated processes of your life, due to dissociation from known and unknown without stress or feeling of being inner-self.

Aware and detached you know correctly in the right context as it is.

Cause of Self-Ignorance is Hypnosis

Ignorance is due to not knowing correctly in the right context. Self-ignorance is due to the Self or the feeling of being inner self.

The Self and the feeling of being inner self is hypnosis due to psychological burden and subliminal stress of association with known and unknown acquired due to wrong conditions of your upbringing and lifestyle. Maya is ancient Pali word also used for hypnosis.

Self and the feeling of being inner self is a symptom of stress and psychological burden acquired as means of survival in the face of threat. When you feel insecure, knowingly or unknowingly, the Self arise and you feel stress in the form of feeling of being inner self.

Self in any form, without any threat to survival, is illness.

You Get Hypnotized Due to Association

Hypnosis and de-hypnosis is natural part of growth and maturity just like bonding and weaning. Hypnosis is captivation of attention voluntarily and involuntarily or knowingly and unknowingly due to association with the known or unknown.

You get hypnotized due to association with known and unknown due to some reason, for example, needs, adaptation, desires, fears, aversions, attachments etc.. For example, you get hypnotized by your carers during infancy or you may get hypnotized by some ideology due to association with that ideology out of some kind of self-interest.

You may associate with known and unknown, get hypnotized and may not know correctly in the right context. You may forget that you have been hypnotized, especially if you get hypnotized prematurely at an early age. Due to hypnosis, you may experience and hallucinate what is not there. For example, you may get hypnotized by the pomp and drama of society or belief systems and give undue importance to them.

Hypnosis can make you ignorant and influence how you live, act and effect.

Self-Ignorance Due to Hypnosis

Hypnotized by pomp and drama of society, you may hallucinate unreal ideas and believe them to be true. For example, you may get hypnotized by ideas and believe yourself to be of some religion, class, caste, race, gender, nationality etc., giving rise to the Self and self-ignorance. Due to such hypnosis and self-ignorance, you may deviate from your natural human nature to live and act according to artificially conceived Self.

Hypnotized by the Self, you feel stressed in form of inner-self. Due to hypnosis and self-ignorance, you may believe and hallucinate that you are eternal immortal inner self with past birth, next birth or after life independent of cause and conditions.

You may forget your infancy before formation of mind and Self. Forgetfulness increases due to immaturity and stress. Due to forgetfulness, you may not remember that you got hypnotized in the process of adapting with society.

Due to forgetfulness, you may not get dehypnotized and continue to live and act ignorantly under hypnosis. Due to ignorance, you may not know correctly in the right context what is real from unreal, right from wrong, good from bad etc.

Right Meditation for True Self-Knowledge

Self-knowledge is one of the benefits of meditation.

Hypnosis and de-hypnosis is part of growth, maturity and development just like bonding and weaning is milestone in growth of infant. However, due to wrong growth, upbringing and lifestyle, you may never get dehypnotized and remain self-ignorant. You suffer due to ignorance.

You can truly dispel self-ignorance through right meditation. Meditation dissociates you from known and unknown, relieves stress of association with known and unknown thus dispelling the Self and relieving the subliminal stress in form of feeling of being inner self. Without the Self, you are no longer hypnotized by objects of self-interest and without the feeling of inner self you are no longer controlled by your feelings or emotions.

Without hypnosis you are not self-ignorant, and you know yourself correctly in the right context. Free from self-ignorance, you can reflect to become self-aware. Self-awareness or awareness of being aware is your state of psychological suppleness and flexibility. Without self you are like water, the highest good and ideal of life to be like.

Meditation is practice of dehypnotizing yourself by withdrawing attention, calming the mind, relaxing the body and maintaining seamlessly clear detached awareness without the Self or feeling of being inner self.