Hi hylas. I am going to give you the final questions. Take your time.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
There is no separate self, of course. To understand that there isn’t one is to understand that there never was one ...

Sorry about the delay: been sick, and with a full house on a snow day.

Is there a knower of this "ungraspable knowing?"
There's no knower of ungraspable knowing. Unless you want to say that that ungraspable knowing knows itself. But I don't think that's right. At least I can't make that make any ...

When the “I” has been seen through, fully and completely, what's left?

The best words I can come up with is "ungraspable knowing." This must be what others mean by "being" and "amness." Maybe it's awareness as perception instead of awareness of perception. All these words and phrases make it seem ...

Do you have any doubts about what is being pointed to here, regarding no discrete self?

Doubts about what is being pointed here? No, I don't think so, certainly not about a discrete self. I don't "feel" different (and you don't seem to be pointing to anything that would "feel" different) but I ...

Is there such thing as a separate discrete self? Has there ever been?
Definitley not. There has never been such a thing a separate anything. All separation is a tool of thought. Even "tool" is too much. It's just what thought does.

Only then can attention land or go to it. But fundamentally ...

How would attention find a place to land?

This really puzzled me at first. Now it seems that "attention" and the naming of things (or at least the "concepting of things") are more or less synonymous. They happen together. Which is to say, attention IS thought interfering with direct experience ...

I believe I understand what you have written (and very nicely written too). Am focusing on the questions. They are not easy, especially the first one.

Ok, I think I see. Ignoring thoughts, I know my surroundings instantaneously. Knowing happens with the very appearance of objects. So, then, knowing is not an object. It sure doesn't feel like one!

Knowing is now.
Meanwhile, I can't help noticing that "now" is found within "knowing." But "no" is ...

I'm having a very hard time separating out what I know from reading. For instance, Spira often calls awareness a "knowning presence." In which case it must know, and knowing must not be an object. It does seem that obects must be objects to something, and therefore, that something knows. But then we ...

Sorry, quoted myself there.

That's exactly what I was going to ask you!

So I guess I don't know.

It's a tough one . . .

Does the head know anything?

Nope!

Define discretion.

I mean the sense that something is separate, is it's own object with clear boundaries. Now, I know that there is no such thing . . . anywhere. I know that a flower is sunlight and soil, that there is no clear beginning and end to what makes it "flower" in time, and even no real ...

Is the body an object of perception?
Absolutley.

Lets try an experiment. Look at your left hand. Feel it's presence in the present moment. Does the hand perceive, is it a knower?
The hand is not a knower, only known. This is obviously true visually, more subtly true with the tactile. It's when ...

That may be a way of saying, no, I don't perceive a self, but I do perceive discretion.