Hi Padma Welcome home! It appears that the Gateless Gate has been crossed, but as you know there is no Gate, no one to cross it, and no end to the journey. It has been such a pleasure to walk beside you! Your openness and willingness to look were simply awesome and made guiding you a joy. Of course ...

Hi Lanie Very thought provoking, thank you. I would have prefered "very looking provoking" :)) You’re really seeing something important now — that the whole structure of “story → meaning → me” is loosening, and what’s left is simply experience, as it is. And yes, that loosening can feel like withdra...

Hey Padma

Thank you so much for your thorough answers! I will pass them along to the other guides to check if we've missed anything, so please stay close in case they have further questions

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Rali

Hi Lanie This is exactly the territory where “no-self” stops being a cool idea and starts bumping into real life. Let’s untangle this... In any difficult moment, there are always roughly three “layers”: 1.DE / what’s here now - warm bed, screen glow, body sensations, sounds, thoughts appearing. 2.St...

Hi Padma Here are the questions. Please answer all questions in full, when you are ready. Please answer what's true for you rather than any sort of 'ideal' answer 1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? 2) Explain in detail what th...

Hi Chal Welcome home! It appears that the Gateless Gate has been crossed, but as you know there is no Gate, no one to cross it, and no end to the journey. It has been such a pleasure to walk beside you! Your openness and willingness to look were simply awesome and made guiding you a joy. Of course i...

Hi Padma

I'm really happy to read your reply!

We have some checkpoint questions. Would you like to answer these?

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Rali

Hi Padma I hope you enjoyed your time away – all of it (the good, the bad, and the ugly)! Dimensionality is literally imaginary. There is only this now to be found ever. That line alone cuts through centuries of seeking. No time. No self. No world out there. Just this —no parts, no edges, no directi...

Hi Lanie This is what deepening looks like: the old tools falling away while life keeps lifing — sometimes gently, sometimes not. You said something that really stood out: In stories, there are victims. In experience, there are only sensations. That’s a deep, but even that seeing doesn’t mean that s...

Hi Bob It's nice to hear from you! I think I gave you the links for fetter exploration: Vince runs one on Wednesdays and weekends. Contact: vinceschubert@gmail.com Kevin Shinilac has instructions on his site https://www.simplytheseen.com/ Pernille Damore and Todd Lent https://www.youtube.com/@TheAwa...

Hi Padma Beautiful looking! I keep coming across a fundamental doubt which seems rediculous because its obviously wrong. Its "why is direct experience taken to mean that its the only interpretation of what is happening". Im not sure, but I think the question may be equaivalent to saying "why is not ...

Lanie, Thank you for sharing this so openly — this is incredibly raw, tender, and honest. You're right in the heart of something essential here. I’m really struggling with this and feel like I’m going through some sort of withdrawal as I wean myself off the addiction of story. … Without the explanat...

Hi Padma This is wonderful! You’re already seeing it. Now let’s dismantle the mechanics of how time keeps sneaking back in through the cracks. If a thought of something that happened yesterday arises, how is it known that its a memory thought? There’s a sense of "casting the mind back”, but if that’...

Hi Lanie, I get kind of down from time to time and have been in a bit of a depressive mood for the past few weeks…I thought for a while that the thoughts were causing the feeling, but I think they’re just striving to build coherence and make sense of the feeling. The feeling just is, for now. The wa...

Hi Padma Wonderful looking! There is so much clarity burning the old illusions Let’s take it deeper… A corresponding lightness, purity, sense of free floating in experience. It is mysterious that this is known/realised without anyone knowing or realising it. On waking this morning there was a (very)...