Hi Phil,

Very good, how does that feel? Does it feel good not to be there? Or does it engender a feeling of loss of control and fear?
Direct experience is nice, kind of blissy, kind of nothing, dissolving ... being.

Where are they coming from and going to?
From nothingness to nothingness - I ...

Hi Phil,

Can you elaborate on that?

I know that when I focus on direct experience - there is no me. I hear the dishwasher humming and clunking - it's true to say dishwasher humming and clunking. In direct experience it's happening whether I focus on it or not, whether I layer it up with thoughts ...

Hi Phil

The not-seeing it, might this be the mind not accepting that it can be this simple?
Probably, 'there is no me' is an incredibly gentle and simple statement, and so incredibly transforming to my foundational perspective of life.

In combination with the fact that the mind can not make it ...

Hi Phil

Thank you for all the hard work and honest work! I like working with you.
Thanks for writing this!

Would you agree that this is the same for all the senses?
Yes

No hearer, no smeller, no taster, no seer?
Yes

Can you find a 'me' at all behind these perceptions?
No

Who is having ...

Hi Phil

In the case of listening to music, it is sound. But who hears it? Can you find this listener? Are you
listening or is listening happening?
No listener can be found. Listening is happening along with focus, because it is possible to not focus
and not hear, just as it is impossible to ...

Hi Phil,

It is interesting to play around with this in actual experience. You can take any of the five senses. Say you listening to a piece of music. Where do you hear it? In your head? In your ear? Coming out of the speaker? In the room? Can you localize it? Where does the listener end and the ...

Hi Phil

Let's focus on what is happening: you seeing the difference between a fictional world made of mindstuff and
the actual world that you can perceive only in the present moment, the raw, unlabelled intel from your outer
world (the five senses) and your inner world (thoughts and emotions ...

Hi Phil

Would it be possible for you to 'remember' and make it clear, every time you catch yourself getting too involved
or resisting what's going on?
Yes it is possible to remember, not necessarily to stop the resistance though and then I feel super disappointed with myself
but I don't very ...

Hi Phil

From these quotes I see we are making progress. You are doing very good.
Thank-you, it is nice to be told - then my mind grabs a hold of it and thinks 'Oh great I'm getting somewhere'

This was about you trusting your rational mind that being stuck in thought.
You say it is clearer but ...

Hi Phil


Is this your actual experience of could this be something you tell yourself?

It is something I told myself.


Where exactly are the labeling and classifying keeping you?

In my mind.


What is this "where"?

Nowhere without thoughts this is nothing, just a black void.


When you ...

Hi Phil

Thanks for your comments and guidance! Not sure how to set out comments to comments to comments...

Clare
"almost like my labelling and classifying was keeping me here in this experience and that when I stopped it I was leaving or falling off (the planet or something)." [/color]

Phil
Is ...

Hi Phil


Observe the pure process of seeing. This is direct experience (DE). Let me know how this goes.


I found the just seeing quite strange, sometimes I closed my eyes to stop the labelling and just experience. I felt quite dizzy when I did this, almost like my labelling and classifying was ...

Hi Phil


sorry for the delay, I hope you don't mind.


No I don't mind. I do feel impatient sometimes ... most times though I understand this is a great service you are providing and appreciate you for it.


Please let me know if you are clear about this or if you would like any further ...

Hi Phil,

How will life change?

Life won't change at all except I'll categorically know and remember that there is no self and because of that whatever mind antics and thoughts that present themselves - I'll know they're just thoughts rather than from me, rather than something I need to interact ...

Hey Phil

I just re-read the faqs and the disclaimer so good to proceed : )

Clare