The tree..  When you see it, it is colors and light When you touch it it is textures and forms When you smell it is is odors and fragrance When you taste it is is flavors and tastes When you listen to it is is sounds Now take several steps away from the tree and turn your back to it.  What is left of the tree? A thought. The thought is real. What the thought is ABOUT is pure illusion.  When you have left all these behind, does a tree still exist? Where? And as what?  ************************************************************************************************************************ Do the same with your own constructed persona.   Leave all senses and all thoughts aside for a moment and look. REALLY look. Aside what you feel with your senses and what your thoughts say... Is there a YOU there in any shape or form? Was it ever? Is this scary? What is it there that can be harmed? And if you never were, and never could be, who is there to be afraid, and of what?  There's no DOING here and no PATH. That's the trap. Just look right now.    ***************************************************** If you are ready to look, do it with integrity and focus. The danger here is that you grab these ideas and run with them, exposing them all over the place without having the real experience of what this all implies. You will use these concepts where and when it suits you, enter mental drama, alienating people around you, etc... Also there can be a moment where you have tried for a while to "get there" and mind has finally figured out a way to get itself around to make it all logical and neat...but without the real experience. There's a surge of happiness then, a sort of an ecstatic release that has nothing to do with the actual seeing of no-self which will of course fade within a few hours or days.