The Empty Nature of the Practitioner
It’s always assumed that the seeker of enlightenment, liberation and total freedom, is a legitimate or valid entity.
If attentive awareness is introverted into looking for the “practitioner”, one can’t be found. There are thoughts and feelings ABOUT one, but other than those descriptive elements, the self-entity of the practitioner can’t be found. Just like if you looked for the character that you were in last night’s dream, that self can’t be found, but it felt completely real during the dream.
If this “absence of a real ‘practitioner’ “, is suddenly seen, the practitioner, it’s path, it’s practices and self-centered role as the “manager” of the enlightenment project, all disappear. No one remains “who” realized this, yet consciousness is brilliantly and vividly present, open and free.