Ok so do you feel you've seen the illusion of a separate self?

I do.

You often refer to awareness and nothingness. These words are very popular in the non-dual world today. But tell me:
What is your direct experience of awareness? of nothingness?


It is the transparency of perception, seeing the world without the filter of a self. The nothingness is the awareness ...

Glad to see things are clearer now.

For the sake of completion here is a final set of questions :

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? There is no separate self, it is an idea that exists in awareness. It never existed.

2 ...

From the point of view of the 'experiencer', how do you experience doubt? It rises within awareness.

There is also the stream of words running through awareness, this chatter that seems to become a narration of events.
Yes. What about it? If somehow you nourish the idea that one day thoughts will ...

OK, now what’s next?

Still have any doubt?

There is a doubt that more delusions persist that are unconscious and loaded into "my" behaviour, but, this again is a belief and beliefs come from nothing, meaning they are experience and have no basis.

There is also the stream of words running ...

Hi Daniel,

My delayed response has been the result of dealing with a major storyline that has been in the way of seeing things as they are. This has come to the surface during therapy, meaning my attention to these questions has been slow and challenging. Much of the below questions touched beliefs ...

I have read these Daniel and will comment back soon, I'm taking the advice and sitting with these questions.

What's next? Do you have any more subtle areas we can explore?

k! Now that we've explored all main areas of experience, tell me:

From your direct experience of what's here now,
Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? No. Was there ever? No.

Now here’s the question : Is there anything permanent in your experience? No. The only thing that persists is awareness, but there is no certainty that persists after death.

Here’s another way of phrasing this : There is ‘what sees’ and ‘what is seen’ (‘what is seen’ is here used in its larger ...

Is this really your direct experience? A visual perception that wasn’t perceived?

From the point of view of experience, is there any difference between :
I see a tree. A tree is seen. And the seeing of a tree happens? No Are they different experiences? No
Can a tree be seen if it’s not seen? No ...

'Separation between body and the rest of the world.'

We usually think that we experience the world through our five senses, right? Yes

In this model, there is some kind of entity (an ‘I’), the ghost in the machine (machine being the body), who is having an experience 'in here' of a world located ...

The summary is accurate.



Do you have any specific area you would like us to look into?
Separation between body and the rest of the world.
Identifying with three dimensional space.
How being around others leads to beliefs in a self.

Beyond that, I'm not sure, I'm guess you have lots more ...

Questions :
We are looking for a function or something, an 'I' that chooses, that decides.

In step 1,
Thinking of the qualities of each drink, have you chosen the qualities? No.

Or did they've pop up on their own? They emerged on their own.

Considering your preferences for one or the other, have ...

Questions
Nothing is being done
Breathing happens
Thinking happens
The thought is the consequence of the event. This last point is an excellent piece of insight

My apologies for being a few days in getting back in touch, laziness has grabbed hold in the last couple of days