Looking at that last question, its clear we should halt this. This is important and requires commitment and focus to really go through this, but right now i am focused on getting my head clear, being present, healing and loving more fully.

I started out determined but life quickly turned up the ...

Revisit i suppose

That the self seemingly generated by thoughts is not the same thing as the living being.

I don't know anymore. Cam we start again?

awareness/being is left.

And everything else in the universe

But you looked, right? You looked everywhere? Was there anywhere you didn’t look, some place it could be hiding?
I did, everywhere I could think to look. I don't know where I haven't looked, because I don't know what I don't know, I don't know my blind spots. I could also be experiencing it in a ...

Snap, I didn't think it had been that long. I'll respond tomorrow.

But do you agree that you cannot know anything except your experience? If there is anything that exists outside experience, you can never know what it is or that it is - correct?

Correct.

What assumption are you making by trying to point at your self? Here’s a clue - do this now - go to the ...

What is there but experience, including the experience of thoughts that say ‘this belongs to me’.
I feel it would be dishonest of me to exclude the possibility that there are things outside of experience. But, for sure, I would agree that experience is all I ever contact, and anything "outside ...

What is it that is hiding or could hide? What could possibly come under threat from the insecurities of others?

The thing that comes to mind immediately is the thoughts i have about myself. If someone says something that contradicts my opinion of myself, i feel hurt, which i realise now means my ...

Go now and look in the mirror for a while ... is that image Tan? ... Do you see evidence of a self anywhere?

I see an image of a face. There are thoughts that this image is *of* me. It is a reflection of this organism and no other. The image itself isn't actually me, just something the mirror is ...

Does a new one every second’ fit comfortably with the definition of a self? How would that work - what would be creating or generating these selves?
Not traditionally, but this *could* be a more accurate description of the self. Not an entity, but something generated every moment.

Look at the ...

Is there anything other than experience in the present moment?

I don't know.

What do you have, or own, other than your experience? Consider your [stuff] ... can they be separated from the experience of them? In the absence of the experiencing, what are they? Is anything yours except experience ...

Been away at a friends for a few days recharging, i probably should've said but the more days that went by the more i was like ahhh crap. Anyway I'm on my way home now so I'll properly consider what you've written and reply tomorrow

I Have a question that is very relevant to this discussion and my life right now. There is this very strong sense of needing to protect myself from people and avoid their incessant projection of insecurities. I know this isn't therapy but its obvious there's some unexplored 'self' hiding there that ...

Snap. I wrote out a reply but didn't send then it disappeared when I went back on the page today.

Essentially I was saying that in experience, there's just the music (sound), other sensations and thoughts, and thoughts claiming '' am the hearer." I can't find a thing that that points to though ...