The identification does it have to disappear completely?
Why?
Why not?

As you point out, it serves a function so it's not the end of the world.

My experience is fluctuating, but just observing it to the best of my abilities. There's not much to report in truth. There seems to be less resistance ...

Hey Jadzia,

Sorry for my absence, but I've been without internet access for these past few days.

So it is just body when looked at and not my body?

Yes, although that identification with the body is still there. Although, there are times when it's just a part of experience in general and isn't ...

If you look down at your body. You see your feet – are you in your feet?
Walk up the legs- are you in your legs?
Check the whole body – is a Dawson found in the body in any part?


No, there is not a Dawson found in any part of the body. The identity is a combination of thoughts and stories, so it ...

Just being? No extra fluff, just thoughts about someone?

Yeah. but the someone it's referencing is just a thought too. Like a mirage. Since my last post, I've been noticing my thoughts more. Seeing how they really are just thoughts.

Hm, can one look through something that only exists in thought ...

There is experience – is a someone needed for experience to happen?

No, because what constitutes a 'someone' changes from moment to moment. As I conetmplate this whilst looking around my apartment, there's just an 'is-ness' (for lack of a better phrase). I may think afterwards that that's ...

Sorry for the lack of a response, but I've been very busy at work.
There's an overwhelming portion of thoughts where 'I' is there. Having said that, there's also the kind of thoughts where a conversation is playing out as if another person were listening. That seems to be a very common one.

I'm ...

So neither the hand or the me are in the raw experience, this just would be seeing=colour/form. Right?

Right, agreed. Hand is just a label that's added to the experience.

Any way, have a look, is there a way in which this self can be experienced?

Not so much experienced, rather it's implied ...

Thank you, Jadzia. I really appreciate your time!

So the self isn't in raw experience. When I look at 'my hand', all that is seen is hand. After the seeing, labels are applied, but they fall away to leave just experiencing.

If it is not in the raw experience seeing where is it found?

Well ...

Hi,

I was on here a while ago and was hoping to have another go!

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LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?

My understanding of this is that there is a sense of 'self' that is implied and informed by sensory information, thinking ...

Thanks Ray,

Really appreciate it.

Kind regards,
Alec

Hi Ray,

Sorry for the lack of response but life is now truly hectic!

Just noticing things as they arise and taking it from there really. I'm not sure there's anything I can share that I haven't expressed already in some way. Just sensing a gradual ease and letting go of trying to achieve anything ...

Hi Ray,

When you notice the "magnetic pull" of thoughts and they pass through, without judging, what is left?
Just raw experience. Life living itself.

What do those attributes point to? What is there?

They point to nothing. That's the thing. It's just like another thing that's happening along ...

Hi Ray,

. What if there isn't a particular thing that should happen or way that it should be?

Well then, my expectations of it being a particular way or for something to happen are maintaining a search.

Why not look back over the past day or three and describe a situation a) when it is ...

Hi Ray,

Do you expect that this will always work, with all thoughts/feelings/contractions?
Does it matter if that's not always the case?

No, I don't expect that it'll always work and that's okay too. After all, it is a part of life.

Is it OK if identification with thought still hapens ...

Does it matter that thoughts occur with descriptions and stories that are unrelated to what is right now?

No, it doesn't matter at all.

If these thougts are believed can you still LOOK anytime and see them for what they are?

Not always, but I can more and more often. Been noticing these past ...