Hey Robyn,

You're the one who determines if you're through the gate by taking on the final questions, but we look for areas that might be weak or unclear for you which could cause you difficulty in the process of integrating it all into life.

Hehe yeah, of course.

There are no more questions ...

It does!

You'll be getting a message soon from the Admin team giving you access to LU Aftercare and other groups.

! Does that mean you all think I'm through?

I'll have to make a Facebook account so the Admins have someone to give access to.

By the way, I think you would make a good guide ...

Hey Robyn,

My apologies. I failed to read your answers as thoroughly as I should have and one of the other guides recommended that I ask you about this (and I agree)

That's alright. The guide raised a valid point after all. Sorry for inadvertantly making you all have to do homework. :'D

What ...

Hey Robyn,

By the way, I knew the line about slippers was intended for me but missed the reference. Thanks for clarification.

;)

p.s. No problem about the quote function. The questions and answers are clearly delineated. If you want to reformat the final version, fine. If not, also fine.

It ...

P.S. I didn't mean for the quotes to format like that. My response to 1) is in the second quote box, before the next quotation, and my response to 4) comes after that.

Hey Robyn,

Are you sure this message was meant for me? Hahahaha!!

Aha, yeah it's the last line from the musical.

Here are my responses to 1) and 4); I'll finish the rest tomorrow.

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

Where the devil are my slippers!?

Robyn,

Congratulations and thank you for the delightful sharing. You had me laughing right along with you! And tearing up.

Aww! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This has meant a lot to me. Thank you for staying with me through the rough patches. I'm grateful for the dedication and kindness you showed me ...

Hey Robyn,

Zechs, I'm sending you the Bahia Sutra. I suggest reading it and let all this sink in and 'gel."

Thanks for that. It was good to have in mind and inspired me to thoroughly look for and then through the remaining holdouts of a self view. The advice to Bahiya that this way of seeing was ...

After all, what am "I" other than that which makes thoughts and actions occur, even if I cannot perceive myself directly?

This was supposed to be a 'gotcha' for you, Robyn, but it really isn't right. "I" is a label. Nothing corresponds to it in direct experience. If something cannot be perceived ...

Are mental images not a type of thought?

Yes. From now on I'll use 'thought' to refer both to discursive thoughts and mental images, instead of just the former.

Look again. Emotions are things like sadness, anger, fear...

Okay. I see this. What I was calling the emotion 'confidence' was in ...

Hey Robyn,

I totally appreciate your candor!

:D "I" inhale your compliments like vapour from a permanent marker.

Does the fact that reporting about a direct experience involves thought negate the direct experience?

No. What I meant was the report about direct experience I was making had only ...

Hey Robyn,

Interesting, eh?

Yeah. I can see a clear analogy here between emotions and the self. Both are made up of thoughts - stories - about someone who's having these emotions or experiencing experiences. There is no concrete entity 'emotion' or 'self' to be discovered in direct experience ...

Hey Robyn,

Thank you for taking the 'coaching' on being guided. I hope my input didn't seem too brusque. :)

Thanks for not shying away from giving it! Not at all - if anything let's be even more brusque: I really like the word but I rarely get to use it, so I very much appreciate having the ...

Hey Robyn,

I get it about the fear and thank you for sharing that. Do the questions I send themselves seem to trigger fear?

Hmm... no. There's a looking and a waiting, but the fear comes up on its own.

! That's strange! How is that? It's like an animal walking out of the woods into plain view ...