Hi Matthew

Still have not been contacted by another guide.

Thanks for letting me know.

Do you feel like you want another guide?

I have given this a lot of thought. My wife has been doing LU for a bit longer than myself. She works with her guide daily, often for extended times. She gets exercises routinely that she says helps her put the ideas to work. Other than the had to the wall ...

Can thought be conditioned?
No. It can only arise as a thought in the present moment. A thought about conditioned thought is just another thought.

Can a piece of paper with a word on it be conditioned?
No. It cannot be conditioned.

Where do we go from here? Seems like our communications are just a ...

Hi. It has been a few days and I have taken a good deal of time to focus on the present moment and just what that means. I spend time in awareness watching thoughts appear, trying to not engage, but to be aware of thinking instead of the thoughts in the thinking. There are times, in the day to day ...

Thanks. No, I do not need to continue to search for answers. I will do as you suggest and report to you. I have noticed that when I take my walks, there is a stillness that happens where the trees, sky, movement, sound all sport of blend and there is a stillness behind it. Vision seems to fix, and ...

The desire is definitely diminishing but conditioned thoughts still do arise about the validity of those teachings. I did start reading the Gateless Gatecrashers the other day but have only read one case sharing. I found a couple of things that resonated like "Does a thought think?" But, even as I ...

Seems like fewer thoughts arise, quietness. Some combination of stillness and aliveness at the same time where in the past there was one or the other. Previous frustration periods about liberation seem diminished. Allowance, observation without mental comment more common.

Yes. When I look for that that is experiencing, there is nothing. Just emptiness. Nothing is seeing, smelling, feeling, hearing, thinking. They are just happening.

Yes, any attempt to find a me is not successful. Just thoughts.

Yes, it seems like during the experiencing there seems to be some thing that is experiencing and some thing that is experienced. A sense of separation.

Empty.

No, there appears to be nothing or no one.

There appears to be no leading out of the present moment. Just more thoughts arising in the present moment being labelled as thoughts of the future, which are actually just more thoughts arising in the present moment.

The mind conceptually is a collection of thoughts. But, when I look for or at the mind, it does not exist. It has no form, color, etc. Nothing is there and then a thought arises, passes and returns to nothing. A train of thoughts are just individual thoughts arising in the moment.

Thoughts of a ...