The False Idea

You see the problem is this
We identify in our experience
A differentiation between
What we do and what happens to us

We have a certain number of actions
That we define as voluntary
We feel in control of those

And then over against that
There is all those things that are involuntary
But the dividing line
Between these two is very arbitrary

Because for example
When you move your hand you feel that you decide
Whether to open it or to close it
But then ask yourself how do you decide

When you decide to open your hand
Do you first decide to decide
You don't do you
You just decide. And how do you do that
And if you don't know how you do it
Is it voluntary or involuntary

Let's consider breathing
You can feel that you breathe deliberately
You can control your breath
But when you don't think about it, it goes on
Is it voluntary or involuntary

So we come to have a very arbitrary definition of self
That much of my activity that I feel I do

That then doesn't include
Breathing most of the time
It doesn't include the heart beats
It doesn't include the activity of the glands
It doesn't include digestion
It doesn't include how you shape your bones
Circulate your blood
Do you or do you not do these things

Now if you get with yourself
And you find out that you are all of yourself
Very strange thing happens
You find that your body knows that you are one with the universe