Ilona, thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
This is a beautiful place and you are doing wonderful work.
Your help really made a difference in my clarity.

I will continue looking.
And I will stick around learning from your work.

Love Joe

Hi.

What are other people? Are they separate from aliveness?

Other people are also life expressing itself. They are not separate from aliveness.

Even if there is thinking going on, it’s the same aliveness showing up as thinking.

Thinking is not bad. It is part of life.

What do you see when ...

What do you mean you are not yourself?

This is saying in a different way that the self does not exist. Language gets in the way.

What are you?

A knowing of life expressing itself.

Is there knowing of the essence of being? How would you describe?

There is an indirect knowing of the essence ...

Hello Ilona. These are my responses.

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

No, the self-identity is not a separate entity; it is a belief in a mind-body existence as a separate entity. This belief is mere thinking, and ...

I am ready for final questions.

Love Joe

Hello.

Can you tell me how you see free will and choice now?

Free will and choice are an imagined ability of the self-identity. The self, a belief in the form of ideas, identifies with the body and mind, and it includes the idea that it is in control of the body and the thinking process. There ...

Hello.

Can you tell me what changed since we started this conversation in normal everyday life?
What hasn’t?

I took my time to answer this question. Daily life is slightly different in that there has been an increase in the noticing of the mind and behaviors. The separate self seems to be ...

How does that feel? Is everything allowed?

It feels liberating, that is, from mental hang-ups. The clear silent knowing takes burdens off the worrying or preoccupied mind. It has a more significant effect on emotions or ego-centric thoughts. This may be so because these feelings or thoughts ...

Hello Ilona.

Is there any doubt?

When looking from outside of the thinking mind, there is only a clear silent knowing of life unfolding here and now. In this sense of being, the focus of attention sees through doubts, and they fade away. Doubts are a product of thinking, and they have no ...

Appreciating your time and attention. These are my responses.

And let’s take a look at this “I am awareness”
What do you do as awareness?

As awareness, there is no “I.” As awareness, there is only noticing, being, or knowing. “I” is an idea, a concept, a thought, an illusory entity. Instead of ...

Hi Ilona. This post is a report of a new insight that developed during my time with you and Liberation Unleashed.

While waiting for a response to my registration with Liberation Unleashed, I started reading the Gateless Gatecrashers e-book with an iPhone app that reads e-books out loud. I listen to ...

Hi Ilona. Glad to get back to working with you.
I’m replying to you from my job at a fire station. So, the responses below reflects our fire department radio repeatedly being heard during the exercise.

Here is an exercise. Do it here or on paper. http://markedeternal.blogspot.com/2012/05/labels ...

Hello Ilona. Here are my responses.

Is there a gap between awareness and object of awareness?
Look at a wall in your room, see colour. For the sake of exercise I assume it is white. And examine how different words point to the same experience.

White, awareness of white, seeing, colour, seeing ...

Hello. Glad to get to work.
In one sentence you say that there is no thinker, but in another that you are zapping thoughts to go away. Which is it?

In the beginning, I used quotes to show that I can distinguish between self and no self. In the later paragraphs I omitted the quotes for simplicity ...

Hello Ilona. It is wonderful to meet you.

You say that mind hates vacuum and tries to take control of the story.
Interesting.
Can you expand on that? What mind really wants?

When using experience to notice thoughts and sensations, there is a temporary emptiness that is void of thinking. The ...