the root of the rut...

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Most brains are conditioned to translate - to exist as though the sense of the separate psychological entity is a foundational fact...

In looking, or touching, or speaking about the nature of consciousness, the typical feeling is a sense of disturbance [and an adherence to that separate foundation] [as in] :

"But how can what you are talking about help ME?"
or...
"But what should I DO ? "
or...
"What are you suggesting?" [as in "what idea do you want me to adopt?"]
or...
"The only thing I can do is try to be good."

Apparently there is this overwhelming tendency to think in a rut. [whose origin is that sense of ME] And then we say, "I will think differently." And we don't see that that "I" IS the rut!