Hi xain

"Imagine talking to your best friend about the experience of seeing through the illusion of self.
Write in direct speech what you are telling her.
Speak from your heart."

I have seen that the ideas I had about who I am is entirely made up in my thoughts. They are not even my thoughts ...

Hi Xain

I have realised in this guidance that any concept of body and mind are thought based. I see that the body functions of its own accord without 'me' choosing or controlling. My experience is the sensations that are apparent in hearing, seeing, feeling etc. It can not be said to be true that ...

Hi Xain

Apologies, I have difficulties with our power here so have not been plugging in. I think the power issue is sorted now.

Thank you for your messages.

But you draw a distinction here once more which I don't understand (or which you need to explain a little more so I understand what you ...

Hi Xain
I am currently having power cut outs. So it is likely I will be unable to reply for a few days. I will mull things over and get back to you when I am back online.

Examine a sensation, like we did in the exercise on 'feeling'.
Is there anything in the sensation itself (not a thought about ...

No the body is not responsible for seeing and hearing. The body exists and seeing and hearing is happening. The eyes are not doing the seeing. The seeing is happening. But the eyes do exist and the body does exist, just as thought exists. There is no central point from where these functions happen ...

Hi xain

Yes I see how my language is ambiguous. By saying body or current experience my intention was to suggest they were the same thing; just different words. As I understand it the current experience is experienced through the body, as in through seeing, hearing etc.

By saying the body is ...

Hi Xain

In what way is the body 'interacting with the world'?
I mean there are two possible ways I could take that.
The body APPEARS to interact with the world, sure. But you might be suggesting that the body itself has some sort of abilities OF ITSELF.
It is important for me to know that ...

Hi Xain

4) Was there something you looked into or something I may have mentioned that made you fully realise - Was there a moment where you 'tipped over' into realising 'no self'?

5) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control as you understand it now. What makes things happen ...

1)Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

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

3) How does it ...

Thank you Xain. Thank you for all your guidance.

Yes I feel I see through the illusion, with the knowing, as you suggest, that there is no me to really see from.

The awareness stays with me through the days; that thought is the only construction of me, there is nothing else. When I stay with ...

Hi Xain

Thank you for your reply. I feel much more accepting of this now. I feel I do get what you are pointing to. There was a moment of hesitation as to whether we were negating the acknowledgment of the body functioning as an entity separate from the seen, heard etc. I can engage with the idea ...

Hello

Is the body doing the looking?
(There may be a sense of distance between objects being seen, and 'somewhere where seeing is apparently being performed from).
But is any reference to 'what is doing the seeing' anything other than thoughts appearing?

Yes of course you are right the body the ...

Hi Xain

Right now there is a body looking at the screen. But there is no I writing this message. Just thoughts passing through. There is no separate self and never has been. There is an assemblage of body and thought that makes up Rosie. But 'I' am not controlling this body and these thoughts ...

Hi Xain

I did not find anything to be witnessing the senses, controlling the body or causing thoughts to happen. There were many occasions when I would make the connection from one thought to the next and thus allude to a controlling centre. But I see clearly how this is an assumption. It feels ...

Hi Xain

Yes I see. Thank you. Of course.. there are just thoughts and nothing coherent can be felt or seen to connect them together. To connect the thoughts together would of course suggest their is a central point by which thoughts can be witnessed to connect...and that is an illusion. Thoughts do ...