Thanks you. And I'm deeply grateful for your help. Your suggestions, kindness, and positivity allowed me to take the final step!

Best wishes,
Bob

One last thing (sorry for all the messages today).

One of the best effects is that almost every time I Look, a smile comes to my face. That has come to be my best indication that I'm Seeing!

Bob

My answer to the final question:
6) Anything to add?

Not really. It looks like the gate has been crashed here.

The remaining issue is what I mentioned in my last post. Now that the initial high has passed (it lasted for several days), it often feels that consciousness-wise, things aren't all that ...

OK, time to take a shot at the questions. With my daughter home, things are pretty busy here, so I may have to do this in pieces:

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

No and no. There are only perceptions and thoughts arising ...

Quick follow-up:

I think that most of what's been arising here lately is simply that there were a few upsetting days, which tends to lead to negative, doubting, thoughts. Unless you have further thoughts, I'll try to take a shot at the questions tomorrow!

Bob

Hello Gondwana,

The reason I haven't gotten back to you sooner, is that I've been feeling kind of stuck (again, I'm using "I" for simplicity). As I mentioned, the day after what felt like a "final realization", there were a couple of very upsetting incidents. Part of the reason they might have felt ...

Now that it has already been seen, every time you do that, this “WHO” question should immediately dissolve into nothing, along with the original upsetting emotion, because it has already been seen that there IS no one to be “upset”. It is seen as just a thought (i.e. empty).

When I do this, the ...

Just noticed that I meant to say that even though the gate was crashed, upset feelings can still arise!

Here are the final questions when you are ready for them. Writing out a fairly long answer to each of these can also help to clarify things.

Sorry for the delay - last week turned out to be pretty awful! I feel like I should work this out on my own, but a little support might be helpful. Here's ...

Write in here whenever you wish during this time, to describe new experiences and new realisations. Feel free to rant and express what you find, in whatever way feels right! Treat it a bit like a journal.

Will do. Aren't there final questions I'm supposed to answer?

Thanks again for all your ...

Hello,

The process has continued since yesterday. There is a sense that there has been a final breakthrough here. A feeling that I'm "done". By that I don't mean that the process won't continue to unfold, but a feeling that the seeking/struggle is over and that the rest will happen automatically ...

This seems crystal clear now!

How does it feel to be nobody?
How does it feel to have no story?

First, a quick update. I've been looking at this "centralized feeling" business pretty intensely for the last few days. There is still the sense that the feeling is "localized" - that's strongly ...

Bring up this feeling again.
Look at it freshly, in the present moment.
- Can it be seen that there is no “centralised” location, and that this location part is simply a thought?
- Is the sensation/feeling simply an impersonal body sensation + thought of a location?
- Is there any possibility of ...

Bring up this feeling again.
Look at it freshly, in the present moment.
- Can it be seen that there is no “centralised” location, and that this location part is simply a thought?
- Is the sensation/feeling simply an impersonal body sensation + thought of a location?
- Is there any possibility of ...

- When you feel a sensation from the body...
- Does that sensation ITSELF contain any location ‘data’ intrinsically within it, describing the location where the sensation originated?
- Or, do you need to rely on prior knowledge of the shape/layout of the body, in order to be aware of the location ...