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Since becoming a practitioner, the lines of what is mind, self, and world have blurred for me. Anatta, for me, currently gives rise to me feeling necessarily and oceanically in mind with those I am in relationships and community with. As I sit and observe mind, I think I see that much of it is colonized or socialized by the forces, thoughts, values, and norms of wider organizations and entities which I depend on and which I am embedded in. For those who abide in jhana or nibbana, how do you experience the ongoing necessity of performing or inhabiting some identity or “self” to interact with and belong meaningfully with community and world?
