Hi J,

Good news! I asked and Vince would like to take over. Vince is great and is one of the 2 people I thought about when thinking what I felt would work well with you.

No, I haven’t heard of Triratna before. So.. that will be it for me now. Vince will respond in this thread. I wish you all the ...

Hi J,

Phew! Thought I'd been sacked 😢 No need to apologise at all. Good that you're back. good to hear

I’ve thought about seeing if there is another guide who might want to take over. For one it’s less convenient to reply for me now than it used to be and my thoughts are on different matters too ...

Hi J,

I’m so sorry, I wouldn’t have thought you would have answered that long ago. I’m in a center now, and it’s quite nice but I really have to go to a place here for internet. I’m very sorry.

I find myself back to doubts I've had from the start. I need to know that the process here leads to a ...

Inside I imagined a couple of noises: a big gong being sounded and (where do these things come from 🤣) Bugs Bunny saying:”that’s all folks”. Ha. And yes, where do these things all come from indeed. Isn't it actually true for every single thought that we don't know (within the idea that it comes ...

Hi,

Thank you for that. Yes, I would very much agree that the way we experience things, is not to be taken as something objectively so.

Also, since you’re expressing a bit of a scientific look on things but also are on this no-self thing forum: do you really know if the brain is creating what you ...

Hi!

Little later response from my end on than usual. I’ve living in a different place now, but it appears that I don’t have a WiFi connection in my room, but I can still do this via mobile.

Sort of ... it's my head and not....! I can hear distant voices. They appear to be 'happening' between my ...

I would have to say it's assumed... Assumed on the basis that I cannot conceive of a decision without a decision-maker andy more than I can conceive of a watch without a watchmaker. Does the heartbeat or the growth of the body require a controlling/managing entity to make it happen? Perhaps when ...

I don't know what this means. I suspect it MUST be true, but I don't yet see it as true. But it has a powerful resonance. I will keep trying to feel into it. Oh yes, that's good. It's not really efficient to see that there is no self, but: what I sometimes did and still do is to imagine a line ...

Hi Griselda,

Boy, that's a tough one. My first attempts result in "Of course I'm experienced! I'm sounding loudly in the center of the head! How could anyone say I'm assumed and not experienced???"
I will have to keep trying this and go deeper with it. Ha. Well, you are experienced. Everywhere you ...

I experience this as an internal voice. A question to myself ("well I could x but on the other hand ...y") or a statement ("I'll do that now because the weather will be worse later"). Okay, but could this internal voice also be just a sound/thought happening? I don't mean that as a philosophical ...

Hello,

Also agreed. Wow, this is the first time I agreed with everything you said! Haha, yes! Well, let's see how the next wave goes :-)

So you agree that certain appearances/visual experience are experienced, a voice but the connection is not experienced, but assumed. Now.. how about when 'you ...

Hi Joan,

This "person" is to be found most clearly in decision points: "No, I won't do that, I'll do this"... Okay, so when a decision is made, what is the experience like, in order that makes you interpreted it as you thinking of it as a person? Is there a specific feeling present, a certain ...

Hi Joan,

Okay great answers, not going to respond them all as I think it's good. To me it feels that the direction that the exercises -of which the feeling exercise I just gave is one- is a bit more mechanical feeling than I'd optimally prefer. But it seemed like the most easy choice in the moment ...

Hi J,

Thank you for your share, that was an interesting read! Perhaps we could say that experience of life being personal, is pretty much what the person/identity is, and that you had a bit of a depersonalisation/disidentification. You might usually identify with the bodyappearance and therefore ...

Hi Joan,

Oh quite well, thank you. Hope all is well with you too. And you're welcome, I like doing this so a thanks to you as well.


So if I look at those thoughts that feel most like me, that now come by like images in front of me kind of. Then no, they do not refer to anything!! that is ...