Once you've found it, there's no need to search anymore
Reader: Here's an interesting discovery — there's a parcel locker downstairs. You enter a verification code to retrieve your package. Just now, someone was picking up theirs, and the sound of pressing the keys on the locker was very loud: "234~." Clearly, the person had finished pressing the keys, but the sound of "234~" kept echoing in my mind over and over. Suddenly, I froze for a moment — where exactly was that sound coming from? Was it something my mind conjured up? But if no one had pressed the keys, I wouldn't have this sound at all. So, where is the head? Or rather, there is no head.
BEINGIS: Very good noticing! The seemingly human form, the seemingly heard sound, the seemingly felt geographical location — upstairs, downstairs — even the assumed "head" and "brain" in the Mind — all of these are manifestations of your own Infinitely Radiant Energy. In truth, these things do not actually exist, yet that doesn't prevent them from being felt as if they were real. The feeling itself is the energetic effect and does not transcend the felt manifestation effect. In other words, the feeling and the felt are one and the same Infinite Radiant Energy's effect. It is the Mind that separates feeling from the felt, assigning the feeling side as "I" and the felt side as "external world." This conceptual separation is an illusion; such conceptual separation seemingly creates an illusory positioning centered on "I." Only your own Self (SELF) infinitely transcends all energetic effects. That is to say, only your own Self (SELF) infinitely transcends the seemingly existent phenomena, the seeming feelings, the seeming analyses in Mind. You can view all these "phenomena, feelings, analyses" uniformly as energetic effects of your own Infinite Radiant Energy. All the "phenomena, feelings, analyses" manifested by your own energetic effects are completely empty in nature — do not take them as real and seriously. To perceive their emptiness is equivalent to your own SELF discovering your own SELF; perception and discovery happen in one seamless step, not in the two separate steps you might think: first perceive, then discover. Conversely, if you go searching for some assumed target (object) called "your own Self," you will never find it. Only when you suddenly realize that everything findable is an energetic effect of Infinite Radiant Energy, completely empty in nature — these very energetic effects are precisely your own Self (SELF), and there is no "SELF" or "THAT" as a separate target (object) beyond the energetic effects — only then do you relax, having found it, with no need to search anymore.
More subtle than you think
BEINGIS: I'm an efficiency freak. Listening to you vent about the troubles in your life — if I give you a way to escape, it's as good as agreeing that your troubles are real. Then, you'll waste your whole life trying to flee them that way. No, I tell you straight up: you're not in any trouble at all! The troubles you think they are -- is simply illusion.
Reader: The above post hit me hard — I can't believe I actually took my friend's complaints about her relationship seriously, and went analyzing where her girlfriend was right, where she was wrong, what she should do...
BEINGIS: This is great — being shocked is good. Let me use this chance to say a bit more about the subtle stuff; it's more subtle than you think: Even if in the experiential scene it seems like the scenario of you listening to your friend's vent appears, and then it seems like the scenario of you advising your friend on what's right or wrong appears, it doesn't matter. Noticing that such experiential scenes themselves are no problem — as long as you treat these experiential scenes as dream-like, that's enough. No need to deliberately stop what seems like listening, no need to deliberately disallow what seems like advising; once you notice that such scenes are completely empty in nature, completely insubstantial, just like a dream, you won't take them seriously, you won't treat them as grave —and of course, it also allows the body to act like what seems like a serious demeanor, yet not actually feeling serious. The whole storyline is just for your own entertainment. The subtle part is that you may allow the body to appear serious while seeming to listen and advise and yet knowing the entire scene is a funny joke. You can completely be relaxed even if the body may act serious and the Mind may continue to interpret them as serious.
Seemingly not relaxing in experience does not affect your actual relaxation at all. This is where the subtlety lies.
SELF is not an object. SELF is ultra intelligence. The world you are seeing is not an actual world
You cannot seek SELF or determine what SELF is because it's not an object. SELF is ultra-intelligence. Only an object has a concept of inside and outside. Being an ultra-intelligence, SELF has no concept of inside or outside, here or there. Funnily, the urge of seeking itself is an energetic effect of SELF. The Mind visualizes SELF as an identifiable object and therefore seeks it. This assumption is like an illusion of self-chasing-self, ending up in nothing.
People are talking about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). No matter how advanced the technologies develop, no matter how smart the ASI may appear to be, it's just a phenomenon in your own experience. In other words, no matter what appears in your own experience, they are energetic manifestations of your own SELF, i.e., your own ultra intelligence. All apparent intelligence within your experience is just a projection of your own ultra-intelligence, no intelligence goes beyond your own ultra intelligence. All seemingly others' wills are your own will, regardless what the Mind prefers or not. You can't feel sorry for 'your life' because this is exactly an energetic projection of your own SELF automatically. No matter how vast the universe appears to be, it's no more than an image projected by your own ultra-intelligence. No matter how foolish people may seem to be, they are not more your own projection of your own ultra-intelligence. No matter how long the history seems to be, as soon as your own awareness is not present here, they are nowhere to be found as if the entire "history" hasn't even happened at all. When you fall into sleep, even just for a slip second, the entire world is non-existent. As soon as your awareness comes into being, the entire world is instantaneously spawned from nowhere. The so-called "world" didn't get tucked into somewhere waiting for you to wake up. They are simply projected energetic images in your own effect of awareness, a.k.a. a seeming projection from your own ultra intelligence.
Everything you are seeing is only an energetic image or texture pattern maintained by the effect of seeing. As soon as the effect of seeing is not present, the thing that is being seen is nowhere to be found. Please notice carefully, the thing you are seeing is not actually a thing at all, but an energetic image projected by the effect of seeing itself. Please let me stress it one more time, the seeing and the seen are one and the same. What can we say about the world we are seeing? There is not actually a world out there, it's an energetic projection from your own effect of seeing alone. That's why I say, the "world" is not actually a world. And you are not looking at an actual world; you are looking at your own SELF alone!
I often use dreaming as a metaphor. In a dream, you are not actually seeing an actual world, but your own energetic projection. Likewise, right here and right now, you are not actually seeing a world or a life, you are seeing your own energetic projection.
There is never actually a world or universe anywhere. There is never a "me" living a "a life". Even the property of space and time is a pure assumption interpreted by the Mind.