ONLINE Wed, Oct 1: "Self or No-self?"

As a seeker in self-inquiry, what is your strategy for dealing with 'self'?
Is it possible for me not to have a 'self'?
Is it possible for self to not have a 'self'?
Is 'no-self' just more "selfing"?

'No-self' can be a solution to self being in the way, because the mind works with opposites. -Art Ticknor, 2011 TAT Talk

Is consciousness separate from the experience of 'self'?
Is the experiencer equivalent to the 'self'?
Without a self, is there then no experience?
Can 'no-self' for you be just a more sophisticated belief or feeling than 'self'?
A new improved view to get stuck in?
What makes me think I can operate without a 'self'?

I understood this thing called 'self': it is man's defense against seeing a world devoid of life -a life devoid of God. Without a self, man is defenseless against such a vision, a vision he cannot possibly live with." Bernadette Roberts The Experience of No-Self

What has fallen away -what was the 'self'? What exactly had it been?
Then too, there was the all-important question: what remained in it's absence? B. Roberts TEONS

To realize that the mind doesn't need nor can realize what it is, that there is no separation between mind and what is looked at, but that begins to unravel. What doesn't is that there is no separation between you and Truth. -Shawn Pethel

Questions for the evening: How do you address the issue of 'self'?
What is your definition of 'self'? Is it you or not you? Is it some thing?
What do you think is the difference between mind and 'self'?
Can you identify one "core belief" that keeps 'self' rooted and in place?
What does self, self-less, selfishness, higher Self, over-self, true self, no-self refer to?