Comment by gsf_emergency

"And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticipations, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you."

"Isn't tasting me?"

...

"I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism.

And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to."

--Aldous Huxley, Island