HI Bananafish — There are things that are known, that are either seen, touched, felt, tasted, or smelled. These sensory inputs can be tracked, and listed. For example, in the last minute:

breathing
swallowing
sound of plane
tingling sensation in face
right foot ‘falling asleep’
sound of dog ...

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


There are no separate things; there is one essence, one substance (awareness), of which all is comprised.

There is seeing. There is knowing.

It is presumed that there is a separate ...

Let’s find out!


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Hello Bananafish!

Lovely to be sitting down writing to you after this period of exploration and experience.

Firstly, to answer your question, there are no doubts. There is no Harry that is a self that is separate from what is experienced/known. Harry is fully one with what Harry experiences, and ...

Is the painting itself any different / separate from the seeing of a painting?


Sat with this for awhile.

The painting itself is one with the seeing of the painting. It is not separate from the seeing of it.

It feels delightful to recognize this! Enjoying the realization that everything seen ...

In the present moment, the eyes aren’t perceived, They aren’t an ingredient of what is seen. I’m not aware of them — though if there was an irritant in them I’d be very aware.

Is that "if" reality, or something imagined?

100% imagined.


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How do you experience "looking through the eyes?"
In the present moment, without relying on thoughts or images, how do you perceive
the "eyes?"


It’s an immersive experience, more than I would have thought. I’m so ‘in’ what’s being seen that it’s not clear where it ends and I begin. As my head ...

Hi Bananafish! I'm going to address your second task first.


Please look at the display before you, and tell about the above from
the observation of the experience of looking at the display.


Looking at the display before me, what do I observe about this experience?

There is looking. There is ...

Is awareness itself and its contents something separate?


I've learned that they are the same. I say that as it still feels somewhat conceptual; I don't feel like I'm sitting in a place where I'm seeing everything as awareness. That being said, as I perceive awareness and its contents now, it ...

Hi Bananafish!

A rest has been necessitated by life stuff -- today was non-stop, as will the next two be. My work is such that there can be 12-16 hour days. It's probably perfect timing, as, while the sensations weren't more than I could handle, I was finding myself feeling isolated and low last ...

postscript: feeling panicky in the chest as I sit here and really drop in the notion of letting go. The word/thought "control" blaring like a siren. Waves of tightening/sensation around my upper back/shoulders.

Please gently observe that whole process, and keep writing about every sensation and thoughts that
arise anew.


Whenever attention is brought back from thoughts to observation or looking at what is, sensation is present in the neck, head and face. Right now, it's felt in the back of the neck ...

Please keep feeling that sensation, and also please note any thoughts that come along with
it.


Happily! I backed off of it yesterday, as I wondered if it was a distraction or too 'new-agey', 'energy'-related for what we are doing. It's returning now as I type this.

Thoughts that come up with ...

Please sit on a chair doing nothing for 1 minute. Watch the thoughts coming and going.
Can you trace a thought back to where it came? In the same way, can you follow a thought to its
destination, if any?


Thoughts appear instantaneously. I can't see them coming. Appear and disappear. They form ...

Do you mean it's something like a storage?

Yes, just like a storage -- like a bank.

What is that storage? How does it look like?

Every new experience creates a new memory, which is then deposited into that bank. These memories can be triggered/activated/retrieved by subsequent physical ...