Hi Jon,

Sorry this does rather break the too long advice.

I recall your guided point from before, how it is equally possible to see the character as empty, as for a character to be conceived.

It's helpful for me to watch a sequence of thoughts about Iain's life.

There follows a natural relaxing ...

Hi Jon,


How “separate” actually are we from nature? (By which I mean the immediate experience of nature as felt presence).


There is no separation when nature is known.

I've not been so nihilistic recently. For a time it seemed bizarre and strange to have ended up here, and to be plagued by a ...

Jon,


How do you feel about what’s ordinarily described as “body” though? Is there a freedom to explore sensations? To be “at home” with these or in them, for instance in your feet


This is useful. To come back to the simplicity of sensation.


noticing nature, the life going on everywhere, in ...

Hi Jon


What if starkness just shows up because it wants to be seen, recognised, accepted? Is there a recoiling from starkness?


I do wish to be conciliatory towards what is, accepting rather than fighting / hostile. So your suggestion within your question is very much heard and attended to ...

Hi Jon,

Does that make sense? Is that fair?

Sure.

I'm grateful for you taking the time to read any reply.

I have no idea if my thoughts and what ends up appearing in text has any merit, any validity.


Do you see a danger in adopting a fixed view of life as “stark”?


I can agree to this ...

Thanks Jon, it is good to know that you are out there.

I'm just working through the remaining points.

5c) Describe free will & give examples from experience.

This world appears. Thoughts are known. A character is described in thought, and thoughts also label this character as having varying ...

5b) Describe intention & give examples from experience.

Thought content is known and considered as right, or valid. There is identification with thought content - that it corresponds with a wider happening for the character. By way of example, thought content 'there is a meeting at 10.30am taking ...

Hi Jon,

Happy New Year. Thank you for being here.

Sorry for taking time to reply.

For years I thought self enquiry and non-duality modalities in general, and LU seeing more specifically as (rather naively) equating to some upgrade in wellbeing. ' Getting this ' would mean life was easier ...

5a) Describe intention & give examples from experience.

Thought content is quite limited and loops and repeats. I have a pattern of unmet needs and particular fears that I revisit most days, in effect fetishising over these. In this way there could be said to be said a form of intention ...

Hi Jon,


4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?

In the late summer as part of her Awakening Now Ilona asked Do you remember if you had a bicycle and what was it like? My answer did not address her question (one of a sequence in the module Finding the Mind Screen about how ...

Jon,

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is.
When it starts and how it works from your own experience.
Describe it fully as you see it now.

Thought presents as a flow of suggestions. The content of thought may be given credence. Thought also has content suggesting that what ...

That's generous of you to offer to go over these Jon.

How does it FEEL now? (This is different from asking for a kind of conceptual explanation).

There was a warmth and excitement that it was known. This warmth can still show up but there is no enduring somatic change, the patterns of sensations ...

Hi Jon,

I do consider these questions each day but have not got around to full answers yet. I suppose there is no rush.

much love

Jon, I would welcome those questions and their review.

Thank you.

Hey Jon,

As part of Finding the Mind Screen Ilona asked Do you remember if you had a bicycle and what was it like?

My answer did not address her question. Instead I remarked how I had no way to know if the particular image that appeared was true or accurate, nor that any subtle sensation it was ...