The "I" is produced by thought.

J. Krishnamurti: Consciousness is it's content. There is no thinker, only thought.

1. What we call "I" (the Ego), my personal, individual, choosing "self", is not a sovereign entity, but a theatrical illusion generated by the brain. To use an analogy of a movie theater, the "I" is like a movie being projected on a screen. We are so absorbed in the movie that we believe we are the characters, forgetting that the reality is the light, the film, and the projector.

The brain has a "show" or a "display" function.

The Projection: Thought produces images, feelings, and a sense of "me".

The Error: The brain in the fragmentary perception makes a "category error." It treats these internal projections as if they were as real and independent as a solid wall.

The Illusion: "I" isn't a "thing"; it’s an activity. When thought is quiet (which does not mean it was made quiet by will or any force), the "I" (the show) simply stops. If you stop the projector, the movie characters don't "go" anywhere, they simply cease to be.

2. "Thought is Matter". Thought is a purely physical, electrochemical process in the brain cells.

The Material Loop: Because thought is material, it is limited by time and memory.

The Fake Center: Thought creates a "center" ("I") to give itself continuity in absolute "time". It then pretends this center is "spiritual" or "transcendent."

The Verdict: This "spiritual mind" is a fraud. It is just matter talking to itself, creating a sophisticated illusion of a soul to avoid the fact of its own material nature.

3. The Fragmentation of the Whole. The "individual I" is a fragmentation. Reality is an undivided unitary movement. When we say "my mind" or "my opinion," we imagining we're cutting a piece out of the whole and pretending it stands alone. This is the
illusion (the illusory horizontal conflict of subject-object produced by thought). In fact it's just thought blocking the complete perceptual contact with Reality, which is the undivided unitary movement.

4. The Brain vs. "my mind" is a crucial distinction which may help clarify the illusion.

The Brain: A physical organ, a biological "computer" that is real and necessary for survival.

"My mind": The psychological "content", the horizontal conflict (subject-object), attachments, fears, knowledge, choices, all of which constitute the illusive product of thought that is the "me".

My mind is the illusion, the Brain is the reality. If the brain could see through the illusion of the "I", it could function with a different kind of "Intelligence" that isn't trapped in the personal "vortex" of the self, with all it's psychological suffering and tragedy.

Time is not a path to psychological progress, it's a mental construct to delay facing That What Is, the unitary movement of transformation of matter-energy, which can be called the Universe. "The Mind"/"my consciousness"/"I"/"the me is not a sacred
internal space, it's an illusory show produced by the brain.

There can never be stability and security in hope or illusion. There is total security only in negation of all the false products of thought. When the illusions are understood, the real is. The most important thing for the "I", the horizontal conflict produced by thought (when it's not f u n c t i o n a l l y needed) is to be what it is - nothing.