Deeds are being done but there is no doer

"The world is the creation of the ‘I’,
the “I” which does not exist."

When a seeker goes within looking for the “I”, he finds that the “I” does not exist. The “I” who claims that “I did this”, “I did that”, is non existent. There is no doer or actor.

As Buddha said “There is a path, there is walking, but there is no traveler. Deeds are being done but there is no doer.”

Now this is not easy to understand, if we use our mind to comprehend it. Because what Buddha is saying is completely different from how we see things. Buddha’s statement comes from the Self and our perspective is dualistic. We say “a man is walking” but Buddha says there is just walking being done but there is no one who is walking. What does he mean, how can there be just walking, there has to be somebody who is walking? You can spend days, months, years but will not be able to grasp it if you will use the mind. An expression of no mind cannot be understood by mind. To understand this, you will have to experience what Buddha experienced. You will have to see what Buddha saw. You will have to ask yourself the same question which Siddhartha asked – “Who am I”. Next time when you are walking, laughing, eating… just ask yourself who is the one who is doing all this. Who is laughing, who is eating, who is walking. Be completely silent in that moment, just give yourself completely to that question. Only then will you experience what Buddha experienced. In that moment of silence, you will find that no body is in there, who is doing all that. There is just laughing, walking, or eating happening with no doer or actor really there.