Even though we have felt that there is no subject inside of a body with the Sixth Fetter, it might still feel like there is something that is not the raw sensations themselves. It can feel like there is still perception happening. It might no longer feel like a “you” who is seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling the world, but it is in the Seventh where it becomes completely clear that all senses are self-illuminating. There is no such process as perception in the first place. That too was another assumption based on misunderstood evidence.

Lastly, because again, the Seventh is about creating form (something) out of nothing, this is where we start to encounter the malleable, and often arbitrary, nature of our experience of Time.

Time is not simply the unbroken arrow, moving at a steady rate, and aimed in a single immutable direction that it sometimes feels that it is.

We might have some sense of whether a memory is about an event that happened seconds, hours, months, or decades ago. But as strong as that feeling might be, we have no way of knowing with certainty whether that sense is accurate or not.

The appearance of the memory is always happening right in this one and only present moment now.

Your feeling of time passing is often unreliable, and subject to a host of factors that can be easily tricked and manipulated to give incorrect estimates of how long it has been since a specific event occurred.

In short, seeing through the Seventh Fetter is when you realize that whatever you assume, evaluate, judge and interpret about yourself, about others, about the world, and even about your past, was all nothing more than thought labels pasted upon thought labels.