Oh, PS - there is something I would like to share. What tripped me up in giving a direct answer to this question.

On this question: Has it always been the case that I and self are just thoughts, or was there a time when a real I existed?

"Has it always been the case that I and self are just ...

Yes - wonderful! I would enjoy that. :-)
Thanks much for the guidance!
Sincerely,
Adele

Hi Ghata,
PS - I would like to add to this question

- what changed and what stayed the same

I said:
Nothing changed, all stayed the same. There is still doing and thoughts

I would like to add that there is a realization that nothing is happening to a personal me

Thank yo Ghata for pointing out that I was digging to deep

Please explain to somebody who has never heard about these topics,

- what the I is,
- how you saw that the I is an Illusion
- how it felt seeing that the I is an Illusion

- what changed and what stayed the same

- how decisions are made ...

Has it always been the case that I and self are just thoughts, or was there a time when a real I existed?

I just re-read this an the question/answer
now is so simple -

Yes it has always been the case that I an Self are just thoughts.
No there is not a time that a real I existed.

Ah, Okay - so there is really just the Now -The Here - The eternal moment- There is not a time that "I" ever existed
:-)

Hello Ghata,
What is a real I? There is no I to answer that question.
There never was a "time" of existence. So the question does not make sense to me.
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one question for you came up:

Has there ever been an 'I', a self?

I dont even know what an "I" or self is! lol That question can not be answered
I and self are thoughts, words - Thoughts exist - Thoughts are consistent. I and self are just thoughts.
The world of form appears real - thought ...

How did you do it with "going into feeling". Then what happened? How did it feel? What was perceived?

Here is what happened - You said on FB -" What do you experience? When you say "I", what does this I refer to? "
As soon as I said to myself - "what does I refer too" - there was the experience ...

How did you do it with "going into feeling". Then what happened? How did it feel? What was perceived?

Here is what happened - You said on FB -" What do you experience? When you say "I", what does this I refer to? "
As soon as I said to myself - "what does I refer too" - there was the experience ...

No there was no I in the experience - The experience was, I was not there, all blended together.
It was like the idea of I disappeared, as I went into to "feeling" from what you said
the feeling of being alive is naturally there. The feeling of "I" is different for everybody. What do you ...

Watch thoughts how they are creating cyberreality. Notice a story they created. And then compare the story to what you see, hear, feel, smell and touch about the same time.

Nothing is going on! lol Stories have no meat. Fantasy

Oh - I just saw you asked to share what I find - I will get back to you later with this
Thank you!

Yes! Wonderful Ghata
Thank you for saying what you did.

This is what thoughts do all the time: Create a cyberreality and none of it does really exist. It's just all words and Images, like a movie on the screen. In the cinema there is no person, no landscape, no animal on the screen. Just light ...

Thank you for re-posting my post!

three times, altogether? So let's make sure you won't forget this time. Once it is seen clearly that there is no I, it cannot be unseen again.

Were the earlier "seeings" similar to this one? When did they happen? How did you manage to unsee them again?
No ...