THE USELESS SELF

This book is about the non-existent entity called The Self, in which we all believe so dearly.

Contrary to our most direct intuition and to our deepest-seated beliefs, we are not an autonomous Self that acts in the world. Each and everyone of us is an event in nature, like everything else in the universe. Every finite bit of existence (including us human beings) is a link in the infinite chain of cause-and-effect. We exist as part of a determined reality which comes from we don't know where, and rushes we don't know where.

Thus, "our" actions are not ours, even though they are labelled and filed under our name. Objectively, they are part of the universal web of things. But subjectively we believe that we are an autonomous Self, which beams consciousness over an inert world, which decides and which acts. There is no such thing.

"Our" actions are only and solely the direct expression of the infinite power of Nature to be and to act. That's why the subjective sense of Self (the direct intuition at the center of our individual being) is Useless.