Hi Vince:
Ok, I friended you on FB. I enjoyed our exchange and perhaps we can continue our conversation at some point by email, Skype, or whatever method makes sense.
Yes, I would be interested in finding out more about how to become a guide.
Best, Ken

Hi Vince,

something that came to mind as i read your post, is that seeing through this illusion (that an independent self exists) is (it's not a great analogy), is that this is like finishing school with the qualifications to get into university.

I think this is a good analogy. I don't expect ...

Hi Vince: The really critical point in this process is one that you have been overlooking, and that is the RECOGNITION that you had fallen for the story. It is the recognition that you were lost, that brings you out of the quagmire of emotion.
Celebrate that recognition with a laugh.
Yes, I think ...

Hi Vince:



budgie wrote:
a question that I ask myself from time to time "who is it that is creating this situation" ...."who is it that is experiencing this".....What is the intention, when asking this question ?

So the intention is that when I see that the illusion of the separate self is ...

Hi Vince: So I have been working with the idea of surrendering to What IS and just looking to see how ego/self is arising and what stories I am telling myself about experience and seeing that life is going on pretty much the same. What is new since working with LU is a question that I ask myself ...

Hey Vince:
Yes, just let yourself fall in the direction of beautiful surrender. Total acceptance that what life is presenting to you at this moment, is the totality of IT. There is nothing more than your current experiencing. THIS!
Nothing to find. Nothing to do. Just relax and appreciate the ...

Hi Vince,
I really appreciate your last post and am still working with it. So I may post again this evening if I have more to say.


Is the difference between an intellectual understanding and an 'aha!', that one of them triggers change ?
Is that change experienced initially, as a yielding? A ...

Morning Vince:


Ultimately I am big self.Is this a deduction, or second hand knowledge, or something that you have experienced ?

Mostly a combination of second hand knowledge (reading, dharma talks, satsang,) and something that I have experienced. The experiential piece is a sense of expansion ...

Hi Vince:

..and what is your relationship to "big self" ?

Ultimately I am big self. There is no barrier or duality. Sometimes it "seems" that I am small self when in thought. Small self is thought created.

Language here implies that there is a universe and there is a Consciousness and that ...

Hi Vince,
I'm not sure but I think I have some idea of what was going in my previous guidance. I think that I felt a little unsure of how to express myself because at times I was told to use ordinary everyday language which tends to be dualistic and points to a "self" so it started to seem like the ...

Hi Kay,
So I will take a little time to review the thread and revisit the exercises again. I may not post again for about 5 days or so unless some questions or comments come up. In the meantime if you have any new exercises or pointers I would be glad to work with them. Ken

Hi Kay,

I think at this stage, it would be good for you to go back to the beginning of your thread and re-read it in its entirety, and even re-do some of the exercises.

Let me know what you notice as you re-read it and once you have read it all.

So I was re reading the thread. It's interested ...

Hi Kay,
I didn't get the usual email that is sent to remind me that you had replied to my last post and yesterday I checked the thread and it hadn't updated. Today, I see that you had replied. Not sure maybe there is a bug in the system? Go for a walk, just around the loungeroom and go from room to ...

Hi Kay,

I'll do one more post today since I had time to try the exercise with the video clip:


Find a TV team sport on TV or a Youtube clip that lasts for at least 5 minutes, team sport such as soccer (the ideal sport to use for this), or basketball, or football.

1. Watch one minute with the ...

Hi Kay:

And what is it exactly that says it’s a ‘gap’? It would take a thought to say that the ‘gap’ is a gap!  Does the label ‘gap’ point to AE or to further thought story?

It's clear now that there were thoughts saying that it is a gap.

But what I am also pointing to is that it is thought ...