What is No Self?

No-Self consciousness is experienced when cravings and aversions arising from a small self end. No-self moments happen unexpectedly, since expectations are creations of a small self. A melody heard after many years, a beautiful sunset seen on a vacation, an unexpected gift from a stranger, all lead to the experience of the no-self moments. Meditation can make the most ordinary moments seem extraordinary because it shifts one's consciousness from the cycle of small-self desires and frustrations to the enjoyment of pure witnessing of that which is unfolding. This witnessing has no ego, no personality, it just IS. The only difference between ordinary existence and extraordinary living is that no-self moments happen rarely and accidentally under the former, and frequently and consciously under the latter.