No -no one or no thing can be found that knows this- it just is.

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

No 'me' 'self' 'I' exists in any form. 'It' cannot be found

Was there ever? No

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience ...

Where is 'self' in the arising and passing of experience?

When looking ...no 'self' can be found. 'It's' not 'there' . Seeing it now as an illusion due to a previous tendency to identify those passing and arisings as 'me 'or mine' .

Can you find, a “self” that is the ‘experiencer’?
No

Or a ...

But turn attention to the space in which the arisings appear – and that includes the idea that you are a 'person' - and suddenly the emotional and cognitive energy we pour into these objects dissipates – there is just unboundedness and calm – like the deep, calm waters of the ocean under the ...

This is really helpful questioning. Many years ago I experienced a sense of dissolution of a fixed sense of 'self' in the face of the truth of insubstantiality. Every cell of this ' body' was in flow and flux and in an expanded and unbounded state. I had not been able to find a way to establish that ...

Thank you for the questions...I will keep looking at this movement whilst away.

This morning a sudden waking up from deep sleep at 3:30am with a realisation that a close family member's suspected illness is true, experiencing the diagnosis. There was a wave like response of expansion and then flowing movement in that expanded space. No need to 'do' anything, just moments ...

Today : This morning in the first seconds on waking there was knowing message to 'just be' like a reminder from the depths of unbounded space. Then a sense of words hurrying quickly to wind up the worry of a family problem story....running quickly across consciousness as if trying to fit into a ...

. I s finding/remaining in direct experience of the moment something that requires ‘practice’? What is it, exactly, that is ‘practicing’ this? Let’s just check expectations here – do you think seeing through the self-view will precipitate a certain kind of “state” – a state without conceptualisation ...

"Look and see how the “I” thought is itself a dependent arising – it needs the concepts of “past” and “future” in order to be sustained. In the direct experience of the present moment can “I” be discerned?"

No no direct experience of present moment contains "I"


" 1) Notice thoughts that ...

Hi I will need to reply to the last post tomorrow. I have been quite sick and am still reflecting on your questions.

When I look closely and describe direct experience it is tickling in the feet, hot skin,pain in limbs and chest and head.

OK what we are looking to see here is that for most of us most of the time ’experience’ is refracted through a subtle conceptual overlay. We are trying to drop the concepts ...

Hello Rebecca, here is your thread.

I Sorry you’re not well – but it is actually a great time to look. So you say “aching bones, fever and weakness”—these are still conceptual descriptors of direct experience – try looking again – imagine that you are describing the symptoms to a person who has ...