Oh and one more question.
When you talk about depression and anxiety, are you talking about them as a medical illness or as a feeling?
And if the first is the case, do you use medication for it?

more love in my heart and peace in my mind, less anxiety and depression, sadness and fear, waking up with a full heart everyday, eager to help yourself and others, going to bed knowing there is nothing left to do

I am sorry Mike, but what you describe is not something that I know how to obtain. I ...

Hello Mike,

I hope to drop any resistance I hold to seeing Reality as it is.

Implied in your statement is that there is something to want and something to not want in seeing reality as it is.
And that implies that you know how it will look.

Describe to me the picture that you have of reality ...

Hello there :-)

My name is Leonie and I am happy to be your guide.
Let's see what we can investigate together.

Tell me, how can I call you?
And what do you expect or hope will have changed at the end of a conversation like this?

Leonie

Sure.
Good luck with the astrology thingy.
Grtz
Leonie

Saying i didn't have an excuse for responding late sounds like i am not committed, which i am.

My excuse for responding late is dealing with almost burn out due to the care of a foster daughter for a year. Does that hurt your expectations of someone who sees this? (Be honest :-) )

Lets keep this ...

Hi Barry,
Sorry for a too long delay. I don't really have an excuse.

Yes, I guess it's a manner of speaking.
You will find that our manners of speaking are the key to unraveling the assumptions that cause struggle. That's why I am gonna disect every word you say :-)

I'm positing a 'thing', but ...

Ok, no worries Barry. I hear you.

Let's agree that everything with a questionmark is a qstn, ok.
You quote my qstn
You answer it

Quote the next qstn
Answer it

Here's info on the quote function if need be https://www.liberationunleashed.com/nation/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=660

the self hard to pin ...

Hi Barry,

Would you mind answering all my questions?
And please use the quote function for that.

Quote the question
Answer the question
etc..

As I said before, it helps you focus on really answering the qstn instead of wandering off or around it. It helps you keep track of wether you have ...

You think that feeling bad things equals "this annoying self", right?

For that to be true, we need to be able to find that self. For drawing the line between what is self in us and what not, we have to be able to find that self.

So .. lets go on that exploration.

Imagine I need to fill in for you ...

Hi Barry,

a firmer sense that I am living in what is real

I am totally unfit to point you towards what is real, since I have no clue whatsoever about what is real and what is not. I have not found or heard of a tool that is capable of making that distinction, if it exists at all.

How about ...

Hi Barry,

is that your name or how you want to be called? If not, what is?

I liked your post. Maybe because you seem to have seen plenty of (more than) the basics already. Let's test that. I might be wrong in that assumption, you might be wrong in the assumption that you need guidance :-)

Anyway ...

Ja euhm dit valt ergens een beetje buiten waar we het hierover hebben. In een liefdesrelatie is er natuurlijk een verantwoordelijk om die relatie goed te houden. Er zijn alleen geen losstaande entiteiten die dit werkelijk zelf op zich kunnen nemen. Verantwoordelijkheid nemen gebeurt gewoon, maar ...

He meneer, wat zeg je dat allemaal mooi !
Niet alleen muzikant en klimmer maar ook nog eens poeet. :-)

Dit waren pareltjes vond ik:

Het gebeurde vrij snel . Het was vooral de realisatie dat ik het 'ik' zelf nooit echt ergens gezien of ervaren heb. Dat het echt
alleen een gedachte is. Wat langer ...

He Dennis,
Duidelijk. Ff nog wat laatste vragen dan om te checken op losse eindjes (op dit moment).

1. Bestaat er een onafhankelijke entiteit (ik, mij, zelf, mijzelf) in wat voor vorm dan ook? Is die er ooit geweest?

2. Leg gedetailleerd vanuit je eigen ervaring uit wat de illusie van een ...