Hi Mehari, you have been blued! Welcome to the other side of the gate! It was a pleasure being your guide.
I supposed one of the administrators has send you information about the "after the gate".
Maybe you should consider being a guide yourself. LU has a big need of guides and it's a wonderful way ...

How about the contrary? Do you also have thoughts popping up that aren't followed by actions?


of course the stream of thoughts are non stop and most of them just pass by without inducing an action.

How would you answer these questions?

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all ...

Even from logical point of view it’s completely ridiculous to think that one “entity” out of the infinitely complex happening of life can considers all the mind boggling numbers of information which is also dynamic from moment to moment and decide and get the desired result .

Nicely said :)

Can ...

That's a nice answer mehari, thank you.

We didn't talk about issues like control and choice. How would you answer this:

Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen?
How does it work? What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.

Take care ...

How would you describe this to someone who has never heard of this?


Hi canfora,
Ifyou mean the non exsitence of a separate self that we call I.it's not an easy thing to explain but let me give it a shot. I would say we have been trained to accept and believe ourselves to be a separate person ...

Thank you for your reply.
Do you have any doubts?
Do you feel something is missing?

Hi canfora,

I don't know how to thank you enough.Thank you for your time and your wisdom and your piercing questions.
I have no doubts left. Life is as it should be. spontaneous and immediate. i know it wil get ...

If there isn't a self, what gets identified?
What is the identification made of?

What a question? what is identification made of? it made me quite for a long time. Identification is made of is the I thought and all the stories the made tells regarding mehari's life experiences. Identification is ...

You are doing great! It is normal to swing for a while between the seeing that a self is only a concept created by thoughts and doubts. Keep checking if you can find an I when you remember to do so.


Thank you for the encouragment. i am seeing that the self is not real more and more and it's ...

I understand what you are trying to say (or I think I do). But I would like you to describe to me what you see right now. Without a self, what remains? What do you see going on?


I see water on the table and a thought comes saying maybe i should drink it. i see the laptop in "my" lap
fingers ...

Do you have the goal of finding what you are? Do you believe that what you are needs to find itself or understand itself? Or can be found and seen by itself? As if it were an extended version, a higher version, of a self?
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Finding out who i am used to mean so much to "me" based based on ...

You seem to have one feet on either side of the gate. You see and you also think something is missing. That's very common. That's the self illusion in its best. And that's okay. Our goal isn't to change how life is being experienced, our goal is to check if a separate, permanent, solid self is real ...

That's circular thinking. It makes sense but is it true? What makes you think a you is real right now? What can you see that may be a real self? Don't think. Look. Do you see a you?

Do I see me? i see the body sitting in a quite room and its reflection behind the computer, fingers typing, a ...

How do you know this? Is a real Mehari here? If it is, can you please describe this Mehari?

Well since I can’t locate Mehari’s existence outside of thought and the idea of liberation also appears to Mehari in thought form, the striving to wake up to the truth must be another thought . Even though ...

Would you say that if you observe what is here now, a self, a Mehari can't be found? Can you see this in your own immediate experience right now? Or do you have difficulties and doubts? If you do, tell me what they are, so that we can talk about them.


Even though I can’t find a self in any ...

Dear Canfora,
Speaking from my own experience, I think this may take a (long) while until it happens or it may even never happen at all. If you are lucky, after a while you stop caring if it happens or not (it becomes irrelevant), you stop thinking about it or you just deal with it the best you can ...