You sure? Cant see any PM in the inbox, could you resend it?

Thanks :)

Lol, yes, lets smalltalk! It's damn steamy actually, very humid, love it!! When were you here?

Oh and hi!

Steamy huh, *imagening steamyness*. Glad you love it, good place to be for steamy humidness! Between 2011 and actually last time just 3 months ago Ive been in Thailand manymany times ...

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

No no no no no!

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

Wow... The ...

Haha, well..

If this really is it then, yes definetely.

:)

So what now. Smalltalk? Hows weather in thailand?

xx!

Hey :)

I wrote that I speak alittlebit of thai, lived there for quite a bit a few years ago!

So, the sensation of sitting is quite rich. Staying with the direct experience of whats happening in the body, silence is noticed. The experience is almost of an emergeing. Always there. Noticing happends ...

Sawadee kap naa Fran! Pom pod Thai nitnoy.

Wont be on the computer today so might or might not write anything til late tonight or tomorrow.

What can be verified. What is true. Keep it simple.



Enjoy yourself!

Hello Thailand! :)

So would you say that in direct experience expectations cannot be found?

They cannot be found outside of being content of thoughtland! An expectation is like a sneaky thought about a fantasyscenario, can only be found like that, a thought with some content.

Yesterday evening ...

Just to let you know that I am getting on a plane in an hour, 11hr flight, may be a bit slow answering your next post, please keep posting anyway!

Hey :) Thanks for letting me know, appriciated!

Let's dig a bit deeper and see if those expectations and doubts can be seen as they really are ...

Today has been a doubtful day. Of not wanting whats happening and unpleasentness spinning around. You write,

Stuff being triggered is, firstly, only another thought and, secondly, only a problem if it is believed. Stuff gets triggered, you can find you are back in the story, you spot it, have a ...

Hey!

Just to be clear, what is relaxed? The mind - if so, are you feeling a separation there? Or do you mean that the experience has a more relaxed feel?

Yes, when talking about experience it all has a more relaxed feel to it. Saying that the mind is more relaxed is more of a way of talking ...

Evening!

are you noticing a change from when we started this conversation?
Trying to stick to the actual seemed changes first; clearer noticing, more relaxed mind, less doubt. Silence and aliveness. What seems to have happened, if theres room for theoriseing a bit. Is that its been showed to the ...

:)

Ill ponder on it a bit, theres def changes and stuff that could be expressed.

Have a good night!
xx

Hello!

Would you say that your experience is a sensation of ears - or of noises - or just hearing?
Would you say that your experience is a sensation of eyes - or of sight - or just seeing?
Would you say that your experience is a sensation of flavours - or just tasting?
Would you say that your ...

Evening and thank you Fran. Appriciation overload right now!

The gift of being able to talk and write here is already clearing things up in its own way. Getting abit bleedy here but its giving birth to a way to express and communicate this from alittle different angle. Also noticing an opening to ...

Morning!

there is the hope/expectation that they will calm down once the illusion of self is seen through

Yes, there is.

1Can you describe thought?
2Can thought be heard?
3Can thought be seen?
4Can thought be thought?
5Can thought be tasted?
6Can thought be smelled?
7Can thought be felt?
8Or ...