You should know that the terribly deep-seated root of the image of ‘I’ is not real but just an illusion like a rabbit horn. Eradicating the root of the image of ‘I’ doesn’t mean rooting out and removing it just like digging something out of earth but means realising that it is not real but imaginary. The belief that your being is limited only to your physical body, and that everything else is not you, is the image of ‘I’.
However, think of yourself. Can you exist, or move and do anything without what you think is not you? In fact, your physical body is only a tiny part of the real ‘I’ that is boundless, formless, changeless and nameless. Your image of ‘I’ has birth and death, but the real ‘I’ is free from them because it is boundless, formless, changeless.
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