The subject or self is correlative to a world, both are persisting regions of being with attributes and structure, and life is the adventures of the self, the animula, wandering through the world in to which it has been thrown. These elements are there even when they are not being experienced as such. The problem with this picture is that the chief feature of the self or subject is experiencing, but from the pure point of view of experiencing the correlative is experience and subject and world are inseparable contingent elements within (each moment of) experience. For experiencing the notion of persistence is only that, a notion within the structure of experience, and makes no sense beyond that. The spatio-temporal and ontological properties of experience have no reach beyond experience. You can just as well think of the experiencing as coming in discrete flashes without any continuity, as being made up of fine grains entirely complete in themselves, closed off from one another. Each moment of experience understood from the point of view of experiencing completely burns itself up with no residue at all. In fact it is only because of such complete consumption that the moments, the grains, can succeed each other. It is necessary to break the image of continuity in this way to begin to see the wondrousness that is hidden in plain sight.