Happy new year!

Anything new to report? :) Dear Tim, hope you are well. I just found your post from end January. Sorry for the long break in communication. But I am happy to report that I found a local awakened person and a group I am working with for the time being.
Thank you so much for your ...

Sorry for the delay, sometimes it takes a while for the answers to arise.


Dear Tim, I was so glad you responded :) I was already doubting you had given up on me..

Over he in Europe, life is still very busy, but some changes to report.



But here's a question to look at. Is that voice an ...

Update: I seem to think thoughts even when I don't think I think. Some stay undetected for a long while. It's like layer upon layer. Found myself sitting alone at breakfast and drilling deeper and deeper into some fruitless frustrating thoughts without even recognizing it. "Who is talking?" Haha ...

Ok, try this.

The next time thought kicks off a thought chain, simply ask immediately, firmly, in the mind:
“Who’s talking???”
Then relax and wait for the answer.

Try this for one day. What happens?

This is a great exercise, and also very troubling. When I tried it, immediately I saw a ...

Dear Tim,
Thanks for following up.
The I thought and the doer do not really bother me, they don't seem to be very prominent, and I don't believe in them consciously. What happens a lot though is getting lost in thought as such. Infinite thought chains use up a lot of attention. This can go on for a ...

What could possibly be more important than lifelong and total freedom?



Nothing could be more important. I see this priority very clearly now.


It is experiential, not intellectual. Simply follow the exercises and LOOK directly at immediate experience, IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. The truth will ...

Hey Tim, thank you so much for your beautiful answer. I was really touched by this, and wanted to answer immediately. Then somehow I got distracted. It seems like an urgency of spiritual search brings me here. Then, when I start to feel better, the urgency is gone, and my focus shifts away from this ...

Update: Again and again, I was trying out direct experience today. And sometimes I could see that there exists definitely more than thought! Thought comes in almost immediately with interpretation. But thought is not necessary for direct experience, like seeing the food, tasting it, feeling the body ...

there is nothing to fear from seeing the truth, absolutely nothing. And everything to gain!

First it must be seen what is NOT.



Thank you so much for your confirmation!
I trust you and follow your advice: First see what is not. Agreed.



Sit quietly for a few minutes.
Call out "I" loudly ...

If we can draw an arbitrary circle around this set of spontaneous (uncontrolled) thoughts, and call it “self”, then does “self” in fact exist at all as a fixed, permanent entity?

Or, is it in fact only a convenient label we apply to some set of arbitrary things, the contents of which change ...

Dear Tim, sorry for my late response. I had a few days off and was spending the time with my friend.


Thought can only do one of two things:
- thought ABOUT actual experience
- thought about other thoughts

But it is never a substitute for actual experience. This is important going forward ...

Thanks for sharing, some good glimpses there :)

Firstly. It should be realised that any apparent “mystical” type experiences or blissful experiences (e.g. falling into the abyss as you mentioned) are considered just “candy”.


Thanks for pointing this out. That is clear to me and I am really ...

I had some short glimpses in immediate experience, but by luck and not always accessible.

Great, let's start there. Please describe these experiences - what was seen and what triggered it?

I was driving to work and listening to audiobook from Gangaji, talking about giving up control. Suddenly ...

Original German thread: https://www.liberationunleashed.com/nation/viewtopic.php?t=6834
Re-starting in English.


LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
Answer 18.7.18: Intellectually, I know what is meant, since I have read many ...

Lieber Matthias, ich habe jetzt ein paar Tage pausiert, weil mir nicht einfiel, wie ich antworten sollte. Auch jetzt geht es mir noch so. Daher ist mein Vorschlag, dass wir es dabei belassen.

Vielen vielen Dank für Deine Mühen mit mir!! Ich weiß auch nicht, warum es nicht "geklappt" hat. Mir ...