You quote this article: http://www.wildmind.org/.../the-empty-room-the-plagiarist...
One of the main points in the article is that there is no "self" that is let go of. It is the "illusion" that there is a self that is let go of.

Has this distinction been seen? It has.
Is fear/anxiety/aversion ...

2) 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. The belief that this psycho-physical human being is governed by a resident entity. A belief instilled in early childhood and reinforced by ...

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

No.

Was there ever?

I used to assume that there was.

More to follow.

M

Taking my time, and stuff's happening.

M

Yes, please.

Yes, and yes.

Other than the present, where can the illusion be seen?

Nowhere.

M

. . . would you say that fear is not an issue here?

It isn’t.

Have you been looking for a self in your normal everyday life?

No. But I’ve gone back (several times a day) to ways of keeping in the present, and there’s no self there.

M

If you stay with the fear, accepting what is happening in this moment, and look at the fear, what can you see causing the fear, in it's origin? Is it a you? A real “fear”, in my experience, is a sudden unmistakeable sinking feeling in the gut, and that’s not what follows the thought of “no self ...

Can you find the looker or not? If one exists it must be findable! Taking some deep breaths, sense of body on chair, feet on ground, fingers on keys, thoughts in background, no looker to be found.

Seeing the computer screen is happening. With your finger, draw a line in mid air, from the ...

Still looking . . .

M

Looking . . .

M

Thanks for your good wishes.

If there is

no entity doing the looking

then who is it you keep asking to look?

M

Sick today.

M

Looking . . .

M