Good Morning, Thanks so much for your time and all your help what a difference in life. I will contact you when things come up.

Again Big Love,
tw

Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. Describe it fully as you see it now.

First answer to question #2: Within the whole of reality exists a small but powerful biological and mechanical function that can create the feeling ...

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4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?

Push is the correct word. It was a combination of things. Your pointing for sure and the going back to the basics to recapture and reconfirm what I already had come to know. A blend of deep honesty, integrity, allowing, acknowledging ...

Hi Pete x,

Yes, I would be interested in aftercare, other groups and Facebook.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

No separate entity "self, "me" or "I" at all anywhere, in any way, shape or form. Never was.

2) Explain in ...

Have you been able to find, a ‘self’ that is the ‘experiencer’?

No

Or a self that is the doer, or can control what happens?

No

Or a self that ‘makes’ decisions?

No

Or a self who ‘does the thinking’?

No

Is the "body" just another thought label for sensations (namely tactile ...

With 'you' revealed as a thought story, what remains?

Just Experience, the True Nature of one's Self. Naked awareness.

What thinks?

Nothing. Thoughts just appear. A separate self is the one that formulates an idea, image, construct around or about to align with prior conditioning projecting ...

My apologies, I did respond to the last injury with you but I guess it wasn't received or I didn't submit it correctly.
Thanks for following up.

Thanks for clarifying that. There's one thing I want to be sure about. As you know, this process is simply about looking in direct experience to see ...

Just to be clear, when you say the more strenuous activities are more 'difficult' what do you mean? Is it that it's more difficult to actually look clearly in direct experience to see whether there's any separate self involved? Did you manage to see clearly that there was no self present even when ...

It's clear that when we breathe, blink, digest food etc. there's no 'I' involved, but how is it for you when walking?

I took more time with this one and tried several activities. Walking is just walking, do dishes just doing dishes, etc.. Nothing added.

How is it when doing various everyday ...

That's great. One thing to clarify, 'simultaneously' suggests two or more separate objects/arisings happening at the same time. In direct experience, can you even see that seeing, or hearing etc. is happening at the same time as 'the observed experience of it', or are they indistinguishable, i.e ...

Again, just solely from 'your' direct experience - not from preconceptions or other thinking, and in a normal, relaxed manner, just see whether, when hearing, touching, tasting and smelling stuff you can find any experiencer present. In each case, can you find any separation between experiencer ...

Thanks for the article.

When you look at something, a book, a tree outside or whatever, can you find an 'I' that is looking or seeing, or is there just seeing?

Nope, just seeing.

If there is an 'I', where are the boundaries between what is being seen, the seeing process itself and the seer ...

I have not expectations of what will happen.


Nothing exists outside the present moment.

No

Can you find anything, anything at all, that does?

Yes, a memory of the past creating feelings, emotions etc. leading me to believe I am experiencing the past but of course that's an illusion. The ...

Please give my warmest regards to Angelika for her guidance.

Yes, I am happy to continue with your guidance.

Thanks,
tw