Thanks and the same to you! I'll stick around.

Best

Sure, no problem. I'll continue to make time to 'look' daily.

Thanks.

Not running the show. Looked for the 'who' or 'what' that is watching breathing today, and only found the focus on the breath, the act of looking to see what is focusing, and then, thoughts would pop up without any control or direction, followed by refocusing on breathing, and looking for how that ...

Ok, I'll continue looking.

I tried to focus on breathing while driving home from work. The goal was to count 250 breaths without losing count or pausing. This seemed challenging enough and would allow for plenty of distractions.

There were lots of distractions that were noticed, including the act of driving. I was able to ...

Ok, I'll check this out.

These are quick answers mostly based on memory, so I'll experiment this week.

Was there a subject in that? an "I" that ran the show, or committed or decided?
No, only as an idea or thought.

Let's go back a bit to your statement about life "letting you know" things. In direct experience, can you ...

Thanks for your understanding. I won't take it personally if you decide to kick to the curb for being a pain in the ass.

I took a look at what 'commitment' is by looking at my commitment to respond in terms of direct experience and at first it was like looking for 'I' - there was nothing seen ...

I'd like to continue and will work on responding with direct experience. I'll check in daily to let you know I'm still here at least.

Thank you

I've been lazy and have rushed the replies. I've looked at the thoughts generated from the questions as direct experience, though eventually understanding the content of the thought doesn't matter.

I read the terms and thought "sounds easy enough", followed by the thought - "I'll do this every day ...

The body feels good afterwards. Is that why I do it? At this point it could be habit as much as anything else. There are other activities that leave the body feeling good. As I look now for a reason, the only thing I see is commitment and the choice to stick to it.

Life is the existence/experience ...

Thanks for the follow up. That didn't take long.

Life may not be an accurate label, but it can be something as simple as eating too much and feeling stuffed, or staying up too late when there is an obligation to get up early the next day; in that case I don't think as fast and run out of steam ...

Thanks, no rush.

6) Anything to add?
I feel I have a better understanding of being in the moment and find myself focusing on direct experience more.

Thoughts of goals and the future happen less. It's not that the goals are gone, there is just less thought about them and more focus on the activity at hand. The ...

The choice to log in and read the question seemed like something I did. The looking to examine the process and describe it didn't seem easy, mainly because of sleepiness and because I was trying to see what took the action and made the choice to login and tackle question 5, but was only able to ...