It's been a real pleasure to work with you.

Pleasure is all mine, Well done on your part

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

No, not now and never has been a self, I or me.

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 ...

Very busy today, I want to spend a little time on this. I will likely get back to you tomorrow.

That’s clarity. I just want to explore one more topic before I will present our summing-up questions to you. Okay?

How do choices unfold in ‘everyday life’? Can you describe a decision-making event in real time?
Give me two examples of any apparent decision-making events.
Do thoughts comment on ...

To clarify your statement: In direct experience can you extract your senses? Can you draw a line between the senses?
Or is seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching just an indefinable happening?

No cannot extract my senses, senses are just sensing, sight is seeing, hearing is hearing etc ...

Can ‘you’ be the senser and see, smell, feel or taste at all?
Or is seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching without ‘I’ or ‘me’ just happening whatsoever?

No there is no senser, just senses, senses are sensing without an "I".

Very Good, nothing is experienced and no experiencer. Let’s see ...

Do you exist at all or is the ‘you’ that you think you are just that – thinking, thoughts?

"You" and "I" are conceptual same way mind is. Can't be verified by direct experience.

Look, is there really any ‘brain’ in direct experience?

Not in direct experience no. I can not see, smell, feel or ...

lets shoot for saturday, I doubt I will be able to post anything today or tomorrow

Stop and LOOK, how is what you call 'mind' experienced right here and now? What is a 'mind', without referring to thoughts and ideas?
Is it any more than the current thought?

No, mind is conceptual, just a thought or label. It is not something that can be experienced.

What is a 'brain' in ...

Olscrach worte: The mind doesn't understand anything in present or future tense because that information hasn't been processed yet.


Your statement implies a something which is doing the processing. Who or what does the processing? How would that look like? Where are the things which yet have to ...

will you?

sure

is there another layer to this besides realizing there is no self?
Great question! Most of us at one point come to the believe that there must be more to life, a meaning or understanding of some sort, a summit where things don’t tackle us, a superiority, or simply another layer or layers of ...

Yes. It’s that simple - there’s no ‘I’ whatsoever! With no ‘I’, does that mean that seeing, hearing etc. just happen without doer, controller, experiencer?

Yes that is what that means. It seems as though we have established that. Shit happens as you stated in one of your previous posts. Do I ...

is there another layer to this besides realizing there is no self?

I think I understand where you are going with this...I am still looking. I think I am close to being able to articulate an answer back to you. I will look some more this evening and try to post again before I sleep. Might not be until tomorrow.