Mark, thank you so much for your guidance and patient support; I am truly grateful.

Bye for now, then.

regarding Q5, how do you know even this? How do you know that all of what you describe is what makes things happen?

Ha! Yes, there was a lot of thought put into that answer!! I see now that the statements about programming, conditioning and processes were the product of thinking rather than ...

Just check that you really need to keep reminding yourself of this. For example, it was Xmas recently -- presumably you saw some guys in a Santa suit? Did you suddenly think "OMG maybe that's really Santa"? Do you need to practice to see that Santa is just an imaginary figure, postulated by thought ...

Hi Mark. Once again, I've taken some time with these questions to really look, and make sure I'm not just regurgitating stuff I've read or heard elsewhere. Here goes, then.

1. No. And no. all illusion, created by thought and conditioning, or programming

2. There is a body. There is thought/mind ...

"To be posed questions and challenges which will help me to awaken from the dream of me. But with all my being, and not just the mind, so that it's a total experience."

How do I feel about this? Apart from slightly embarrassed at the pseudo spiritual jargon??

Well I certainly feel as though I've ...

Hi Mark. I've taken a bit of time with these questions, because I wanted to try and make sure that

1. they are not just coming from things I have read or listened to from various teachers, and
2. I am not answering in the way I think is expected of me.

First of all, I can state without doubt ...

Hi Mark, and once again thanks for your patience and forbearance. If ever you need someone to clean your windows - don't ask me! I haven't cleaned mine in 15 years - that's what rain is for, isn't it?

Remember the question a while back -- you didn't actually answer it: "Can you find a connection ...

Thanks for your patience, Mark. I do appreciate it.

I will spend some more time on this tomorrow, and get back to you.

Ha! You got me there 😂

Ok, honest answers without thought:

If there is no self behind actions -- how does anything happen? How do things get done?

I don't know, they just happen! Even if on the surface of things there seems to be a controller in charge, in reality no controller can be found ...

If I were confronted with a sceptic, I wouldn't try to convince him!

But from my own experience I would say that after looking hard, I cannot find anything that I can pinpoint and say "that is me". The body is a collection of organs, which in turn are made up of collections of cells which can ...

The monster under the bed is a great analogy, because it's so real in the head or thoughts, but not really there. I'm finding the same now with the self, I, me call it what you will. The sensations and thoughts happen and are real, but without the sense of the self to attach them they are so much ...

The sound and the hearing are one, neither exists without the other. Yes, I can see that. I notice it more and more now, when listening to music as well, or the sounds of nature when I'm out walking.

Seeing requires closer attention, perhaps because the image appears at first to come into the brain ...

Hi Mark.

After a few days of checking and observing the experience, I can say that habit alone still leads to thoughts of the self, the "I" or whatever, but when real looking takes place there is no I to be found. It's like a new habit is being formed, that of "looking for the I when it appears to ...

Hi Mark.

After a few days of checking and observing the experience, I can say that habit alone still leads to thoughts of the self, the "I" or whatever, but when real looking takes place there is no I to be found. It's like a new habit is being formed, that of "looking for the I when it appears to ...

Thanks Mark. I am sitting with this for a couple of days, and will be in touch soon.