Great! Thank you again for guiding me!

Great! Been a pleasure here as well. Thanks again!

6) Anything to add?

Nothing to add - I'd just like to thank "you" for guiding me :)

Hi,

Sorry it took a few days to respond, I must have accidentally disabled e-mail notifications somehow!

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

No, there is no separate self anywhere and there never was. "I", "me", "self ...

There is a sutta by the Buddha that you may (or may not) enjoy: Herein, Bahiya, you should train yourself thus: 'In the seen will be merely what is seen; in the heard will be merely what is heard; in the sensed will be merely what is sensed; in the cognized will be merely what is cognized.'

I ...

Yep. What you see is what there is, minus thought-interpretations. Any gate anywhere? Anyone who is going to cross through it?

Indeed, conceptualizing is secondary to seeing. Upon seeing there is only seeing, and then conceptual interpretations arise as thoughts quickly after. There's no gate ...

Hi Wesley,

Before I begin to write this post I just want to say that a few minutes ago I had a moment which not only are words utterly failing me in my attempts to make sense of (even to myself), but the concept of language itself seems totally incompatible with the experience. I even briefly ...

By the way, would you like me to continue calling you cwig or by another name?

Just "C" works. I'm holding

So there's nothing you can find without referencing a thought OF me, is this right?

Kinda. I may not even reference the thought directly in the sense of identifying as the thought itself ...

Can you tell me the process of how "ever-present awareness" becomes "I"? When is the "I" added? Why isn't everpresent awareness just that, everpresent awareness?

The I is added simply when the thought "I" arises, often in the form of a statement like "I did this", or "I should do that". The ...

Completely butchered the formatting, sorry about that!

Hi Wesley,

I apologize for taking a few days to get back to you. Thank you for offering to guide! I'm ready to start and will try to post on a daily basis.

I'll answer your preliminary questions in order, but I'd just like to mention that there have actually been a few developments between the ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
I understand this to mean that the pervasive sense of an "experiencer" of experience is an illusion, and that there is a way to recognize this fact directly. There is nothing of substance that can ...