What Is the Difference between Myself and My Mind?

In this video, we examine the question: What is the difference between myself and my mind? A woman says she finds it hard not to identify with thoughts during meditation. She wants to know how she can separate herself from her thinking in order to stand as the witnessing or knowing presence of awareness.

Rupert says you cannot separate yourself from any experience. You witness thinking or hearing or seeing, but not from a distance. You witness thinking in the sense that you are aware of thinking, but the you that is aware of thinking is not separate from the thinking.

Identification means to feel that what you essentially are is thinking, but you are obviously not identical to or the same as thinking, because in between two thoughts, there is no thinking but you remain.

At the very early stage in the investigation, we do take this step and separate out the witnessed from the witness, the known from the knower. But here we don't stop there it was just a pedagogical tool that we used for one who is lost in experience.

What you need to be sure about is that what you essentially are is not limited to or conditioned by thinking, or indeed feeling sensing or perceiving, in other words, what you essentially are, pure knowing is unconditioned and therefore unlimited.