Why would thinking that I exist be the core error? Ok, picture this, "you" are driving along the road and some "other" person gasses it out of a parking lot into the street and cuts you off and almost causes an accident.
Now, because you think that this other person is separate from you rather than simply an event happening in your perception, you have now separated yourself from that other person by thinking all sorts of nasty things. "What a fucking idiot" "How could he just pull out right in front of me?" and on and on in your attempt to create a "you" and an "other." Look at this situation rationally. Is this not something that simply happened in your awareness? Think of how many things that you made up along your way of justifying all this anger at someone whom you have never met. Nothing is ever more than an event occurring in your awareness. It is only the silly things that we make up and tell ourselves that causes all of these "unwanted" emotions.
Don't overlook the fact that I have placed the word unwanted in quotations. I do this because I am asking if those emotions are truly unwanted? To take a simple event in your awareness and spin it into some kind of you vs. the world scenario. You did that. All the other person did was pull out in front of you. So are the emotions of anger, frustration, etc unwanted if you have completely orchestrated the entire event of unpleasant feelings on yourself?
Now take this scenario and apply it to EVERY circumstance of your life. There are no exceptions here. You and You alone are responsible for how you feel. And when you drop the preposterous notion of separation do you see how foolish you have been.
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