thankyou smudge, will be in contact in other contexts, hugs and thankyous galore
as you say, finest egyptian cotton, thread bare and without seams
xxx

ok thanks
want to add, I am so so grateful to you for helping this happen, reading Dharma is from a different perspective, terms like naked awareness, direct way, seeing the emptiness of mind, is all very exciting, its as if I have been given a code or the key to get out of the closet of self. There ...

to not cause more suffering in the world, by not holding onto a separate cotton

Story or DE?
yes story not DE
as long as remembering happens

What if it doesn't, is there then a self?


no there is not suddenly a self, remembering to look is what is sometimes there and sometimes not

if ...

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

have not found a separate entity of self, it only takes shape in thought and emotion and this has always been like this


2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when ...

ah dear smudge, I have not forgotten, have just got back from chapter and working all day, but I have been simmering over the weekend, all that has unfolded in the last weeks and want to sit down tomorrow and write something, its just a bit too late now. Looking forward to being in communication ...

The important thing is, is self seen to be just an idea. So believing in Santa as a child does not mean Santa was real when you were a child does it. It doesn't mean if you forget for a moment he is not real he will become real again does it?
And...dukkha tends to be a good motivator to re check ...

there is no doubt at the moment,

Is there anything except this moment in DE.

in DE there is just this moment, there is no separate self, yet there is getting lost in thought which is when doubt will arise self is an illusion? yes, yet believing in thoughts still happens, in and out, the ...

It is thinking that when BELIEVED in causes pain for sure. There is thought and pain, any I DOING this to be found?
the thought expressed here was not even about now, it was an old story, a fear story, a thought and an emotion that was past. can see that believing that will cause pain, there is no ...

unexpected time at home due to snow, so been reading poetry and some of my sketch book notes, one I just read about how I work with paint,

" painting quote" colours appear separate, then working into them, dancing in and out of them, moments of interconnection, don't need to keep them separate ...

So in DE describe the separation that is seen...

just been looking and can only find thoughts that separate or emotions that manifest in response to not being separate, there is a very undramatic sense of everything right now just doing its thing, not independent, not separate, connected with all ...

If its (intuition label) a finger, whats it pointing to?

intuition points to truth, a mysterious faculty pointing to something unknown

So. Can you say, that yes, it is clear that I is imagined, that there is no separation and separate self is an illusion? If no, what is it that still needs to ...

So we are ripe to look at choosing now. So from this seeing, how do things happen, give examples from today..how does one route happen over another, or how does something get chosen to eat over another...think of a capital city.....
How did that happen...?


Paris, no idea how that came, it just ...

thank you so much for being there…..now how did I choose you….Mmmmm more later x

Hmmm..So DE has edges does it, lets SEE?....lets look at this duality story and SEE if there are really any edges ever...if there is separation...lets look at mind....So Look with absolute DE only and report back. Do it like its the first time, it may cut through this real not real thing thats ...

just drinking coffee, thoughts about the coffee come and go, not mistaking the thoughts with the experience of drinking the coffee….ah yes

Drop trying to fit it together and just look and report back from pure DE and then just let the magic happen

reading what you said I then sat quietly with a ...