Thanks Padma for everything, and the other guides for their support too.
With love Arrietty Bee xxx

Hi Padma,
I have spent the last couple of days absorbing, re-reading our posts and re-looking directly at some which particularly stand out. This felt important so as to be sure there wasn't 'just' intellectualising.

So now to turn to these questions.


1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me ...

Hi Padma,
Thanks for sending these questions, yes I will take it slowly, I just thought I'd let you know that I've received it x
Love Arrietty

Hi Padma,
Oh yes...!! Great!,, thank you so much... I've found your guiding really brilliant xxx
Lots of love Arrietty xxx

Hi Padma,
Yes all is fine thanks, sorry this is late, it took ages sorting out the notes I'd taken during the 'sessions' today.
Hope you had a good weekend too.

Hi, Padma,
I have reflected as suggested on these questions and I'll describe what I found this morning and then this afternoon separately ...

Hi Padma,

1a: It’s brilliant you’ve known this for a while. And putting that ‘story’ aside ;-) and coming back to direct experience: what is behind the changing life story of me:

Telling life story right now, reflection thoughts appear, there is a thought saying 'this is my life story where shall ...

Good afternoon Padma,

Try this exercise: throughout the day let yourself observe thought simply as objects that arise much like any other sensation or feeling?
What happens when you do this? What are you discovering/learning?

OK this is what I did.... I'll describe one of the observations as ...

Hello Padma,

‘Arrietty' is referring to a conventional view of a self, a human being, a woman. But all that is there is a bundle of conditions and loosely connected ideas.

1. Yes indeed! Well put too! Do you know this intellectually or do you ‘see’ this?
What does it feel like to say that? is ...

Hi Padma,
Good to hear from you.

1: Brilliant! And excellent! You don’t know what your next thought is going to be and you can’t choose a number! So you have seen through an assumption! How does it feel to know that? Does it change anything?

How does it feel to see through an assumption and to ...

Hi, I just re read the list of questions and noticed that of the last two, one was an affirmation and the other was to redo the exercises if time to affirm the findings, will do at some point,
Thanks again there is rather a lot for you to read now hoping your work goes well
Love Arrietty Bee xx

Hi Padma, here is the next instalment of replies to your questions, still a few more to look at. X

1: So, a direction suggest some kind of ordering of thoughts in a sequence in time, with a movement from a to b.

There is cognition which is informed by knowledge learnt and remembered which appears ...

Hi Padma, here are some observations!

1. But what is actually present in sensations?

Just sensations are present in sensations.
( e.g. Body sensations, tingling, movements, itches warmth etc.)
awareness/observer and sensations are one and the same in direct experience in all of the senses, sound ...

Hi Padma,
thanks for replying so thoroughly. And wow that's a good run!
You have given me a lot to consider so I will give time to it tomorrow as I'm to tired now. It was a good weekend gathering though.
I'd been retreading what we've explored so far and was thinking about revisiting a few ...

Hi Padma,

Thanks for your reply.

I've found this difficult and I feel a bit stuck!

1. is there a thinker of thoughts right now?......

There is thinking going on. Thoughts now are.. thoughts about this question! Thinking is active but there isn't a thinker when looking. There is awareness of ...

Hi Padma,
Apologies for being a bit out of sync with you, having access to Internet is intermittent until Sunday.
1a. You ask " What is different about those thoughts about self"?
They are thoughts which get labeled as self that is all.
e.g. 1. They are proliferating thoughts. 2. Thoughts repeating ...