If there were two selves. One roughly “pleasure seeking”, animalistic, beast, system 1,etc.
The second, the knower, planner, thinker. System 2.
First you are animal alone. Then you want to plan something. The animal doesn’t like that. So you pretend it doesn’t exist and push through it. Then you are planner alone. But that hurts. So you go back with a carrot an stick. As the planner. And that works a bit. Until it doesn’t.
Then you go decide to try being the animal again. But that doesn’t work either..
Then you work out you are both. The non-dual congruent self.
If there were two selves. One roughly “pleasure seeking”, animalistic, beast, system 1,etc.
The second, the knower, planner, thinker. System 2.
First you are animal alone. Then you want to plan something. The animal doesn’t like that. So you pretend it doesn’t exist and push through it. Then you are planner alone. But that hurts. So you go back with a carrot an stick. As the planner. And that works a bit. Until it doesn’t.
Then you go decide to try being the animal again. But that doesn’t work either..
Then you work out you are both. The non-dual congruent self.