I'm not sure I can say how anything is happening! If you just observe, there's just the appearance of things happening!

No, no, and no!

A little backed up on the question of responsibility, I'll admit. Thorny. As for an example of a decision, here's a minor one from today. As I got dressed in my hotel room to go onsite with my client, I discovered that my belt does not fit into the belt loops of my new dress pants (it's too wide ...

The experience of “decision-making” goes like this, at least it seems to me: Thoughts and feelings arise about the decision to be made. The train of thoughts is somewhat coherent (which we know adds to the illusion of being an “I” that thinks). A decision is made, and that decision appears in ...

Great, I think so too ;)

Here are the questions:

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

Working on these!

No, I think we move to those final questions you mentioned.

The answer, of course, is no one.

As always, no thing is found that can be called “I.” I get the sense it is necessary to keep coming back to this until the various beliefs and philosophical notions fade.

Good suggestion - the personal pronoun exercise. Will do.

After struggling with this for quite a while for some reason, I decided to just go ‘stream of consciousness’ with it to get something out there. I am very clearly stuck on something, and I’d rather communicate it badly and get to work on getting unstuck than stay hung up on how to express things ...

Still working on this!

Will do!

I meant “bliss.”

Holy shit. It turns out that our inflated expectations about enlightenment are every bit as vague as our terms like I or me or self!

As soon as I try to define or describe it and get to anything more specific than vague terms like bless, it unraveled very quickly. More quickly, in fact, then the ...