Dear Nina,
I feel it's complete for now.
Warmly,
Mawi

Dear Nina,
To keep the head above the water.
Not to get drowned in stories and valuations.
The key is the direct and actual experience.

Thank you for that. Not believe the stories, yes, that is very good advice indeed:).

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

Dear Nina,

So do you have any questions left?
Is there something you’d like to ask?
Your question felt like you were halting me in my tracks, saying: 'Hey, this is it!'
As if there are still beliefs saying 'there must be something more'. Ha ha ha! And I know that's a lie - just thoughts, old ...

Dear Nina,
Go out into nature and spend some time watching the movement of the whole.
See how clouds move, trees swing, leaves wiggle, grass moves, insects, birds –
all move all the time.
Then move focus to sensations and see how they too are in constant motion,
thoughts come and go, sounds ...

Dear Nina,
What is memory exactly?

It is just normal thought. A line of thoughts telling a story.
What is the memory ‘made of’?
It is made of thought, sometimes emotion and body sensation come along with it.

What is the exact difference between a ‘general’ thought and a ‘memory’ thought ...

Dear Nina,
Thank you for your questions; they clarified it.
When can you really experience the experience?
Can it really happen outside the now?
No, of course there is nothing outside the now, no experience.
Appearing, being present and disappearing – is this really a direct actual experience
or ...

Dear Nina,

Can you explain this ‘experience flashes in and out’ a little bit?
Where does it flash from and when?
Is there something like a coming and going?

I am having trouble with this.
When I just really am aware what the experience is without trying to do it right, some sensations come ‘in ...

Dear Nina,
It is something different when you just look at a scene and know what you see.
When in the seeing is only seeing – nothing else.
Looking and knowing are the same in this process.
In here no active thinking is needed.
This helps, thank you: looking and knowing are the same. Yes, makes ...

Dear Nina,
Bliss is still a ‘mind-state’.
Yes, I can see it now.
What we are trying to look at is not a state of mind.
Actually it has nothing to do with mind.
It is just the background in which all the sense impressions happen –
and it is always there and has ever been.
The fact that 'it' is ...

Dear Nina,
Thank you so much for this beautiful sharing!

What is suffering? Suffering needs a sufferer. Only when there is a dog someone can kick the dog. ( :
This is not just a platitude. This is the central question circling around our exploration here.
In my experience there is causeless joy ...

Dear Nina,
Thank you for sharing your experience of paradox you had in Myanmar; it's beautiful. It helps me to hear from your personal experience. Actually, and you can say no, I'd be very interested how you experience life at this time. Is there no suffering left? Can you just see what is and know ...

Dear Nina,
Now 'go to' the feeling/sensation which we would normally refer to as 'hand on desk'
and answer from what you can FIND.

1) How many things do you find?
Are there two things (hand and desk) or is there one thing – sensation?

2) Can a ‘feeler’ be found in 'what is being felt'

3) Do you ...

Postby suma » Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:24 am
Dear Mawi,

wonderful! You are so beautifully clear.


So let’s look in the equal way at hearing:
Dear Nina,
You are up early!:).

1) In 'hearing' can anything be found other than 'what can be heard'?

2) Can what is doing the hearing be found?
Or is there ...

Dear Nina,
1) With eyes closed, can you confirm that what is experienced is 'blackness' as I mentioned?

2) Is there anything else in 'seeing' other than 'blackness'?

Yes, I can confirm that all there is is blackness.
There is no awareness of 'seeing' even, it's just blackness.
3) Can what is ...

Dear Nina,
Press a finger down onto the top of the ‘head’.
Notice what is actually present.

Is it a head, or is it just a sensation labelled ‘pressure’ and a story ABOUT a head?

Do the same with a finger on each side of the head.

Is a head actually found, or are there just sensations again?

And ...