| | The sensations that create the sense of a "watcher" are not all that complicated, they are just subtle and deeply ingrained. Most of it can be seen as a few primary sense-ations. The sight of objects, the feeling around the face and head, and your intention. Try viewing just one of these, or attempt to look at how they combine to create a sense of watching. When these and the other subtle sensations that create the watcher are seen as empty, transient and causal, then they are seen with balance and arise with the same gravity as any other sensation.
Essentially, everything is a formation-- there are just some senations that arise in a way and with a weight that seems to imply a continuous self. But beware, nothing has ever been you in the past and will never be you in the future (at least from the realized perspective). This might sound lousy. Recognize, however, that the dualistic split is what gives rise to suffering. If, moment to moment, there is a self of some sort, there is suffering. Suffering sucks.
Seeing these sensations are they are, right now, in your moment to moment awareness = enlightenment, the end of suffering. If you feel something, it is empty, causal, transient, not you. Try not to make a problem out of things that are not problematic, such as negative feeling emotions.
Lastly, in terms of technique, it does not typically matter whether you are using a technique "against" the watcher or the watched, again, because they are not separate. I will post another topic which might be useful for this. Also, noting "nothing separate, no observer, etc" are also implying a self in a subtle way. It's an unnecessary effort; the noting of phenomena themselves is enough.
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