Lovely, thank you! Yes, it’s much easier to catch the mind getting itself in trouble. :)

I have no advice on that, life finds a way to unfold all contractions, and experiences are not meant to be only positive, or negative. I know that many people changed jobs, lost interest, others found new ...

I agree. No chooser does not take away power. Power was never there in the little me that claimed the choice.
But the sense of powerlessness can arise. And that comes from programming, from beliefs that may be running. And it’s an invitation to see the pattern, so that it can cease.

How is life ...

Is this your understanding as well re: powerlessness?

Thank you, dear friend.
And does seeing that makes you powerless?
How do you see that? I guess to some degree, yes. I don't think I've fully reconciled this part yet.

The lack of a decider/manager ultimately means the 'power to choose' is an illusion, so that would indicate powerlessness in a ...

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You can choose to fight or go with the flow. Is this decision conscious? How do you choose to react, when something calls for a response? Is there a choice to react or reaction happens? Would you choose to react?

Both reaction and “going with the flow” is the flow, happening.

Can you ...

Thank you very much for answering.
Here is something I invite you to explore a bit more.
This is still tricky to explain because my mind wants to immediately fire out a counter-argument for someone who might be reading this "so you're saying you're not responsible for your life?" Yes and no ...

Sweet! Here they are :)

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


There isn't and there never was (there was an illusion of one but it was always just that).



2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when ...

Right! So is there any doubt? Can you say with a big fat yes, it’s clear what the i is?

Love

I can! [emoji1635][emoji1374]

Thank you so much for taking the time

Thank you.
It’s obvious when it’s looked at. True. And when it’s not looked at, does the chooser sneak in?
How do you see that?

Very true!

I don’t think the chooser really ever sneaks in, but there’s an illusion of the chooser that comes back over time. In other words, our thoughts may ...

All of the sensations, colors, figures, tastes, sounds, smells and physical sensations occur without choice and without option - there’s an immediacy to each of these, they arise and there’s no choice to experience them or not.


Yes.

There isn’t a decider. Thought is not a decider.

How does ...

Thank you for expressing what you feel about this.
Let’s take a simple act of choosing. Anything, that happened today. And take a look, how did the choose happen?
Was it a thought that chose?
What happened first, a thought, action or impulse?
You can play with this: extend your hand forwards and ...

Don’t know why but there’s been a little resistance regarding what to write/writing more.

Free will: the more it’s examined, the more flimsy it seems. The decisions that are made moment by moment are based on thoughts that seem to arise pretty much out of no where if we pay enough attention to them ...

How do you see free will and choice? Take a choice that was made today and examine, what happened, how it happened.

Love

It seems like we have free will on the surface but when looking closer and tracing the chain of events back and back and back, I guess we really do not.

I paid attention ...

Really enjoyed the video.

Will watch choice and report back.

Thank you!


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Here is something to look at. We manifest things. As if there is I and life. I with its own free will and choice and life out there that listens to what this I wants. Is that true in experience?

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Wow! Reading these first two sentences, could see the gap in understanding right away. That ...