The assumption of individuality may be false; but it feels real. How to shed this stubborn assumption?
Part of his answer was:
So all you know is what you've always known - only you call it individuality [but] it is actually HOW THE WHOLE FEELS.
This is just blasting! :D
We feel something, define it and confirm our definitions with the feeling as a proof.
"I am the individual", "I am the body", that feels so strong indeed, but we made these definitions up in the first place, accepted them as true, and pinned them on the sensations.
Then, one day, we hear new definitions: "I am the whole", "I am not the body" and we break our heads up trying to understand what the heck they mean.
So we turn towards the feelings and shout "go away you stupid sense of individuality, go away you so bloody solid body!"
And instead of letting false ideas go, we take on new ones and look down on the only thing we know to be true: experience.
After all, the only thing we know for a fact is the feeling at the root of "I am the individual", "I am the body" and so forth, i.e. the sense of "me". We don't know what it really means, we don't know if that really is a proof of individuality, of corporeality. No. We just know it is, we know it as "me" whatever that means.
So often we can feel this "me" and there is the latent idea that there is a "whole" somewhere around that "me", in which we are. But have we ever felt that whole-other-than-the-me? No. We only have labels pouring over our experience claiming this is the "real me" and this is the "world".
It is not surprising then, that as we hear some who say "I am all", we feel somehow stuck in this bubble of individuality. But it is not a real bubble, we only imagined a greater whole that has never been here.
Because the whole is already this.
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