Hi Petrus,

Thank you sincerely for your expert guiding. Nothing is more important than seeing the truth, and your help has been so mud appreciated. I know the work has just begun and I embrace it.

Thank you again.

Warm regards

Jahara

There is the experience of the sound only.

There is just an experience - a sensation only. There is the automatic thought 'feet', but what is felt/experienced is the sensation only.

Now to the mirror exercise:

Is there any connection between the felt sensations in the body and the sight in the mirror? Or just thoughts (and/or mental images) suggest that there is any?

There is no connection. It is all thought and mental images that connect the sensations and what I see in ...

Hi Petrus,

There's been a lot going on in the last couple of days that has prevented me responding. Finally a few moments! :)

One guide asks this:
In direct experience is there any organizing or controlling entity of the body such as a brain or any thinking entity, or is there just indefinable ...

Hi Petrus,
Thank you to you and the other guides for these questions and exercise. I will respond either later today or tomorrow morning. Thank you. :)

kind regards,

Jahara

Hi Petrus,

Thank you for your continuing help.

Life is much bigger than reason can contain.
Which part of the brain do you experience thinking from?

I don't know.

Can you feel a floor and your feet?
Or is it some pressure only? Plus the image of feet resting on a floor?


It is a feeling of ...

Hi Petrus,

What is the brain in direct experience?

At the moment hands are typing - eyes are seeing the words on the screen, ears are hearing the washing machine, nose is smelling a bowl of cut up fruit - these senses and the thoughts about them, and the thought to describe them to you, all come ...

Hi Petrus,

The brain is an impersonal organ that is responsible for coordination and incoming sensory data. The brain is not owned by a person named 'Jahara' or 'Petrus' or whomever. The brain translates and separates incoming sensory data. That is how 'I' can paint. The brain controls the hands ...

Hi Petrus,

Ok, that's great. Thank you so much for guiding me.

Warm regards,

Jahara

Thanks Petrus,

5) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work? What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.

All those things come from ego desires and need, fear, hope, stressing over an imagined future. Control is an ...

Hi Petrus.
Ok here goes! :)

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


No. No there is not. A 'self', 'I' cannot be found. The belief in the existence of a 'me' has been the most insidious and entrenched lie. 'I' is just a ...

Thanks very much Petrus. I will work on these tomorrow morning.

Warm regards,

Jahara

Thanks very much Petrus. Yes it is very new - this seeing - there is only thought and feeling and direct experience - no self in the world means experiencing life as it really is - no separation - but yes disconnection with others - good to know this will likely abate after time - but if not, then ...

Hi Petrus,

What is meant by ready here is:
Did you see through the illusion of a separate self?


Yes, it is seen. The self is an invention/ a story. It is a freeing thing - seeing that I am not the prisoner of a history that has been so limiting and damaging. I am free and limitless ...

Hi Petrus,

The first thought that came up to your question about me being 'ready for the next round', was 'yes I am ready - I want to do the questions'. But then later, it hit me like a freight train, that it can't be known whether I am ready. Whether i say 'ready' or 'not ready' - they are beliefs ...