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by vic46
Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:59 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Sorry to hear this. It is disappointing.
It would be helpful to my process to know a little more about why you are withdrawing.
Wishing you all the best.
Vic
by vic46
Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:53 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Hi, sorry not to post yesterday. A crazy long day. I am fine.

Inside and outside is not a constant thing. If I concentrate on an external object the centre of my awareness seems to be outside.
Meditating eyes open, my thoughts often appear.to arise in front of my face - almost as if in my visual ...
by vic46
Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:12 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

I ask you to look again and to find out:
what really is that observer, how does it manifest?
Is he really an independent observer, a 'self' observing, or is it awareness of thoughts happening, and you feel that awareness at the same time as thoughts and not independently from them?

Hi,
The ...
by vic46
Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:49 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

When that watching happens, can it be found some separate entity apart from the very watching of thoughts, emotions, and volitions?
When looking at thoughts: when I am actively thinking or caught up in thought, the flavour of self in the thought is very strong. It is as if the self and the thought ...
by vic46
Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:28 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

When watching thoughts: getting caught up with or deliberately active within thoughts, my sense of self feels no different to the thought. At that moment I am the thought.
Watching simple things like sounds, the feeling of being an observer comes and goes, it seems to rise out of nowhere ...
by vic46
Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:56 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Am I separate from others?
My responses, habits, volitions are fairly predicable and not unlike other peoples.
My sense of self and my awareness of others arises in the same mind/awareness, so in a sense they are both passing experiences in the same context.
When I have a strong sense of self I ...
by vic46
Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:48 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

When I watch my mind I see thoughts, emotions, volitions arise and pass away. When absorbed in these arisings the sense of a self is very strong.
When resting in the space between these arisings the sense of self is much more subtle. Perhaps it is more of an anticipation of a self about to arise ...
by vic46
Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:25 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Is there an 'I' to be released?
My training suggests that there is no I to be released. Intellectually I understand this and during meditation I sometimes get a glimpse of this.
However, my daily experience is overlain with a sense of an “I”. This is experienced as my own set of needs and ...
by vic46
Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:37 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Hi,
I have read the terms and disclaimer and agree.
The video link points to the home page. Couldn't see a video.
Expectations? I hope to see the nature of my experience as it really is, free from distortion, whatever that might turn out to be.
How will this feel? I would hope for a feeling of ...
by vic46
Mon Nov 03, 2014 6:51 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Re: Guide Please

Hi, that's great news, thank you!
Where do we start?
by vic46
Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:35 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Guide Please
Replies: 25
Views: 3522

Guide Please

Hi,
I have been practicing meditation and Buddhism for about 15 years. I very much appreciate this style of insight practice and would like some help to wake up. Any takers?
Thanks,
Vic

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