Can you give some examples from your daily life that explain what you means by:
The only thing that is real about experience is consciousness/awareness/knowing
I am surfing is just surfing. I am writing an email is just email being written, I am eating is just eating, no I doing.
And can you ...
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Are you separating the knower and the known (experience)? Are they different? No, I have gone beyond/collapsed the distinction between the open empty awareness/subject observing things floating through that. I experience the word I’m using at this moment, the knower, as a pointer to discuss the ...
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Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
No
Was there ever?
No, not ever.
Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. The illusion of a separate self is a collection of ...
Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
No
Was there ever?
No, not ever.
Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. The illusion of a separate self is a collection of ...
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no, not at the moment, but thank you Sarah.So then Amy, any more questions from you?
Nothing for now.Anything you want to look at? Anything at all?
Clear seeing, no doubts.Has the illusion of self been clearly seen through? Any doubt?
Thank you again Sarah!
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Can I presume here you meant the I thought was still very unsettling rather than settling? If so is this still the case? If so what is unsettled?
Yes, unsettled. That was poorly written, my apologies. Not the case any longer.
Is there still a feeling of separation?
No.
What’s happening with ...
Yes, unsettled. That was poorly written, my apologies. Not the case any longer.
Is there still a feeling of separation?
No.
What’s happening with ...
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Hi Sarah,
Are you in the body looking out, of the body as a whole or in certain part of the body?
It is a very convincing sensation that awareness is using the eyes to see, the other senses to experience experience. I do see awareness as the I am, and I do see everything in Awareness is made of ...
Are you in the body looking out, of the body as a whole or in certain part of the body?
It is a very convincing sensation that awareness is using the eyes to see, the other senses to experience experience. I do see awareness as the I am, and I do see everything in Awareness is made of ...
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Good Morning Sarah,
What is your direct experience of this ‘table’?
My direct experience is it is a sensation and the mind starts to label, cold surface, feels like wood, rough, smooth...
Is it senses again?
yes
Is it thoughts again?
yes
Which comes first the senses or the thoughts ...
What is your direct experience of this ‘table’?
My direct experience is it is a sensation and the mind starts to label, cold surface, feels like wood, rough, smooth...
Is it senses again?
yes
Is it thoughts again?
yes
Which comes first the senses or the thoughts ...
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Can you find a dividing line between the sound and the hearing of the sound? Are you doing the hearing? Or is it truer to say that hearing is just happening? Then look to see whether there's a dividing line between the hearing of it and a separate entity, a "you," doing the hearing. In other words ...
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Can you find a dividing line between the sound and the hearing of the sound? Are you doing the hearing?
No, I cannot.
Or is it truer to say that hearing is just happening?
Yes, in my experience listening just happens.
In other words, what does it mean when you say, "I'm hearing that sound ...
No, I cannot.
Or is it truer to say that hearing is just happening?
Yes, in my experience listening just happens.
In other words, what does it mean when you say, "I'm hearing that sound ...
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In seeing, what is being experienced? What is happening when "seeing" is happening? What is doing the seeing? What is being seen? What does "seeing" consists of?
In seeing, there is an object in the same space as the seeing. When "seeing" is happening, that which is seen and that which sees are ...
In seeing, there is an object in the same space as the seeing. When "seeing" is happening, that which is seen and that which sees are ...
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Hi Sarah,
Is there is a thought that you can control?
Does not seem so.
Can thought think? In other words do you actually experience a thought thinking?
No I cannot. Just thoughts.
What can a thought do – what power does it have?
Nothing.
You experience thoughts, but do you experience ...
Is there is a thought that you can control?
Does not seem so.
Can thought think? In other words do you actually experience a thought thinking?
No I cannot. Just thoughts.
What can a thought do – what power does it have?
Nothing.
You experience thoughts, but do you experience ...
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Do you bring the deliberate thoughts? If so from where and how?
No
NoDo you send deliberate thoughts away?
No, it is all just happening and to no one.Can you suppress or plan out the next deliberate thought.
In other words do you control them in any way?
Thank you,
Amy
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Hi Sarah,
Treating all thoughts the same!
Which is?
Are thoughts to be got rid of? Stopped? Or...?
Pushing the thoughts away or wanting to make certain thoughts stop still comes up. I catch myself doing that. It feels like a cycle of noticing the thought and sometimes watching it pass and ...
Treating all thoughts the same!
Which is?
Are thoughts to be got rid of? Stopped? Or...?
Pushing the thoughts away or wanting to make certain thoughts stop still comes up. I catch myself doing that. It feels like a cycle of noticing the thought and sometimes watching it pass and ...
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HI Sarah,
So they aren’t expectations anymore?
yes, they are still there.
Are you spotting them when they come up?
yes, i spot them and treat them like any other thought.
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Looking forward to your ...
So they aren’t expectations anymore?
yes, they are still there.
Are you spotting them when they come up?
yes, i spot them and treat them like any other thought.
Trying to learn the quote function on this site. I may not have it figured out yet.
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Looking forward to your ...
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Yes to all. I had expectations, strong beliefs about life after seeing. I recognize the folly in all the expectations the more I see the empty nature of thoughts.

