Thank you for your help. Good to get into all the corners so to speak!
Love
Jnanasiddhi
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Not areas I'd looked at... So I did. So responsibility was interesting! That could be quite freeing - no me to be responsible, just, again, thoughts, responses, shifting impulses. Just area after area to see it playing out. No one in control. But yet choices happen, life happens. No one to have free ...

Ok, phew…
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No, nothing there, nothing behind it all, managing it or making it happen.

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

Yes.

Well my first response came in a thought - "yes! There is doubt... is that it?"
but then the thought was gone. And was more reinforcement that there isn't any self. I didn't choose the thought, it didn't stay... other thoughts come - "oh well, good...lunch...", they come and go. Some I give more ...

is it 'as though' nothing is there where a me is supposed to be? or is it literally nothing there...describe nothing from DE! &..what looks?
Nothing from DE - noting is not nothing at all... when I look and there are few thoughts or images popping up or emotional responses, then there is a ...

Hi Smudge,
First exercise

When looking at the food (bit of pear) there is a thought of cold and hard, thought of not very attractive to look at. When I close my eyes and think about how it would taste there are more thoughts of what it will be like: crunchy and sweet and cool to the tongue - and my ...

Hi Smudge
Thanks for your email. I am ready to enter the process and am OK with the agreement to post at least once a day, to be honest and talk from direct experience and just stick with this for the duration.
So my hopes and expectations. On the surface I don’t think I have huge ones, I have been ...

Hi Smudge,
Looking forward to working with you,
Hermione