I'm checking in on you buddy:) I have tremendous gratitude to you and everyone else at "the gate." I fully expected to be excited about my new found revelations about self and then have the shininess fade away after a few weeks. Instead the realizations continued to unfold. It never faded. Now I see ...

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Would you describe this shift in perception as experiential rather than intellectual? Since starting this inquiry can you honestly say there has been an experiential change in the way you experience life rather than changing a belief about the way things are?
Two words ...

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Is there I to cross this gate?
When I use the word I in these posts it is just in the convention of the language we use. There is no I or we. We used words in an attempt to describe something that doesn't exist. If you have to explain the joke it's not funny ...

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Here are the answers to the other three questions.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
I think I wrote about this in the last post. The last discovery that pushed me over was mostly that THINKING is SELF. My perceptions, emotions, sensations, and memory all ...

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Yes, Please add me to the FB group. I'm on FB and if you search I'm the Brad Driessen with a beard and three kids. Here's the answers to the confirmation questions.
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

2) Explain ...

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I'm doing well. I went to my normal Friday night meditation sangha last night. Guess what the topic of discussion was? Yes, you got it, NO SELF. The person leading the session was trying to present the topic as well as he could. I felt sorry for him and sorry for the group that ...

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After contemplating these questions: I believe that I am seeing direct experience as a means to no self. Therefore they are two things. In the same way that I realized thinking AS self I clearly understand that direct experience IS no self. In other words, the experience of no self is ...

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Is there an I that can be aware or is there just awareness?
Is there a self that exists outside of your direct experience of whatever is arising in awareness?
It really does come down to simple questions like this. Direct experience is awareness, at least in the way that we have ...

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I didn't get an email yesterday saying that you had responded. You've been so good about responding that I finally looked here and saw that you had. Thanks.
Amrita:If you can experience life without a self what does it feel like? Is it different from when you started this inquiry ...

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Does this mean you have seen through a separate self or I? Is this still on the level of a belief or can you you actually experience life without self or I? If you can experience life without a self what does it feel like? Is it different from when you started this inquiry?
I'm not ...

From what you say you can experience a state of awareness where you are not identified with beliefs or with a self but you keep finding you become caught up or identified with thinking and thought-content. Have I got that right? The nature of this inquiry is based in the direct experience of what ...

s this something you experience or is it another type of belief? What does this experience of non-self feel like? Is it possible to remain in the natural state of awareness and not be caught up in the contents of thoughts or beliefs? Is it possible to be open to the direct experience of what is ...

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Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
Self esteem - self conscious - self motivated - self respect - These are all kind ridiculous terms. Without a self the self would have esteem, be motivated, have respect. I speak ...

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In the aware, natural state is it possible to be aware of thinking without getting caught up in the contents of thought? As in, "oh look, there's thinking taking place again" without becoming caught up with or reacting to the contents or thought ...

For many people this inquiry takes them by surprise that the truth of no-self is really so simple to see when you pay attention to your direct experience of the here and now.
That's the thing. Everyone that discovers this must be surprised by this truth. Until discovered it is the ultimate in ...