Letting you guys know I didn't fall of the face of the earth. I want to have a good piece of time set aside to authentically respond to this in a relaxed manner. I have two events going on this weekend which have required all of my mental resources! (Not to mention the regular resources of work and ...

Aw man! I must have forgotten to hit submit! lol I did copy and paste the koan I wrote into Facebook:

Everything, concepts.
Everything and every thing.
Concepts separate.

Is there an experiencer to experience the experienced ?
There has to be within the definitions of the words! But... It's the ...

Good evening Casey.
Afternoon vince.

Is there an experiencer to experience the experienced ?
There has to be within the definitions of the words! But...

When looking at a tree, where does the see-er interface with the seen ?
The "interface" is all mind.

It's easy to see that sensations are ...

Good evening Casey
Good afternoon vince.

the believe that I can help ease the suffering of other organisms... Or maybe, better put, that "I" can help our collective organism function better.
Yes, i share this. Do you think it is a belief about being a good person ? ..or hardwired into our DNA ...

Hi Casey,
Hey vince! Emails are working again. That let's allows me to be "mindless" again. :)

observation and experience creates the belief that in, what we call morning, the sun will be there to greet me
If we look a bit further at this, we only say that the belief exists when we are talking ...

G'day Casey,
Good afternoon vince! Long time no forum!

Yeah, me neither. Something didn't happen when the site was migrated. (i will ask) Ha, there was a thread on this issue. Gmail put all of my notifications in the Spam folder. (i guess it started coming from a new ip address) Either put Admin ...

Good evening Casey,
Morning vince! Still not getting emails... I'll have to fiddle with the setting again.

but I can't imagine that [the sun not rising] is even remotely possible.
So this is a belief that it will never happen?
I suppose so. Well... maybe less of a belief that it will never ...

Good evening Casey,
Morning vince!

Yes, the site has become so busy that they had to migrate to a better server. You should have received an email about it.
Yeah, I didn't get any emails or an email alert about this post. I adjusted some setting in the control panel, maybe that will fix it ...

Good evening Casey
Good afternoon Vince! Perhaps it was due to the site maintenance, but I didn't get an alert for this post and when I last checked the site was down.

Another guide asks; "What determines if a thought/story is believed or not?"
The first thing that came to mind was experience ...

Good evening Casey.
Good evening vince.

Another guide asks; "Can a thinker be found? Can thoughts themselves think?"
No, a thinker can not be found. The second question seems trickier. I imagine it is due to language. Within the matrix of concepts, yes, thoughts clearly can think. Peering in to ...

5) Do you decide, intend, choose, control events in Life? Do you make anything happen? Give examples from your experience.

No. I don’t think so. I’m just constantly reacting to things. Every “decision” I’ve made has been preceded by a million decisions I haven’t made. Within the Casey (or I ...

Good evening Casey,
Good afternoon vince.

No. Well… I definitely have a body and thoughts. Or, I’m encased in a body (and thoughts).
So who/what is the "I" that has a body ? ..who/what is encased.
I suppose there's just an "awareness".

There is no fixed Self.
Is there a non-fixed Self ...

Good evening Casey, will you give me a paragraph on these questions. Not an answer, per se. A response.
Good afternoon vince, sounds good.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No. Well… I definitely have a body and thoughts ...

Good evening Casey.
Good afternoon vince.

Perhaps discipline is something that naturally arises instead of something “I” am doing (even though it feels that way).
"Houston, we have a problem."
Dicipline is not a thing. It can't arise.
It's a label for a set of happenings.
Yes, that.

Now ...

Good morning Casey.
Good evening vince. Long day being political.

I would call the process of developing these habits discipline.
Hmm... So let's examine this a bit.
There is an intention to develop a habit.
The thought arises to do what you want to be habitual.
That happens.
Thoughts arise ...