Kevin,
Great name by the way.
Hey I searched for you on FB and didnt get a hit. Would love to be your FB friend. Please look for me kevan jackson.
Bye and thanks for everything.

Kevan

Michael,

Forgive me if this is out of order but will you please describe what your zazen is like?
I think it might be helpful but if you dusagree I understand and it's alright.
Thanks

Kevan

Michael,

Something just occurred to me and I wanted to send it your way.
Everything I've seen presented by L.U. confirms the Buddha doctrine of dependent origination. I thought I understood that doctrine but I've been missing some key points. I understand there is no actual self that exists ...

Hi, Michael

. So yes there is a commentary of thought, the froth on top, or the waves on the ocean, but what is occurring underneath?
I feel like I’m being lived by the Absolute. There is no me, just thoughts. If there is no me living this life that only leaves the Absolute.
I was 18 and ready ...

Hello Michael

Put your hand in front of you, watch closely like a hawk and make the hand lift up and then down. How did "you" do it? Did you know when the hand would go up, and when it would go down?

At first I just starred at the hand and tryed to "watch it like a hawk". Then a thought of "well ...

Michael,

I will get busy on this soon. I've been involved in holiday issues as well as a very painful recurrance of gout. Take care.

Kevan

Hi Michael

How are choices and decisions occuring?

My wife is partially disabled due to arthritis in both hands. So, I do all the food shopping, cooking and kitchen clean up.
My choices and decisions mostly revolve around buying and cooking food. I’m a pretty good cook so I decide what to buy ...

Hello Michael,
I'm so happy to hear back from you. Before I get started on my answers, I wanted to discuss a technical matter. On November 5, I received an email notification to inform me to go to the LU site to review comment on my answers to questions. I have not received an email notification ...

Hi Michael,

Are you happy for me to present our thread for your confirmation?

Yes, go ahead.

If more questions need answering thats fine with me. I look forward to whatever comes next. I'm just so grateful to have encountered LU and you my guide. Thank you again Michael. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Michael,

4. What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?

What really made it click was the exercise where I see, I hear, I taste etc.. Then seeing, hearing, tasteing without the I thought. I kept doing that exercise now and then throughout the day and then that night I woke up ...

Hi Michael,
I’m not very knowledgeable about different computer apps so probably my fault. I mean, I was successful some of the time.
Anyway, whatever happens I will have a copy and won’t have to start all over again.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way ...

Michael,

Yes there was a glitch. I answered all the questions but one and then put it away for the night. The next morning I couldn't find it, so I answered all the questions a second time. I actually think my second set of answers were better that the first. I do hope that all the questions have ...

Hi Michael,

Anything to add

I am very grateful to those who developed LU and to you Michael, my guide through this process. LU will lead so many to true liberation. It's really a brilliant program.
I live in Southern California, a place of many spiritual paths and teachers. None of them can ...

Hi Michael,
Glad you and yours are safe and we all survived the latest mass shooting.

Ok, down to business:

I'm surprised you say intellectually when a profound shift seems to have occurred
You are a long term Zen practicioner and I'm sure you know what it's like to have a profound experience ...

Hi Michael,

Yeah brother, lets really get into thought because goddamn it!
Ok, here goes:

Where do thoughts come from?
Well sometimes a sensation will trigger a thought, but other than that it seems like they just appear out of nothing.

Where do they go?
Nowhere. They seem to come from ...