Hi Ilona :) Answers for the exam below! :))


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

A. No. Not now or ever.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience ...

Hi Ilona,

Writing here with a request to be a volunteer guide.

Love
Steven

sorry for mis-spelling of your name Ilona. Attention to detail before coffee not my strong point! ;0)

Hi Ilana,

Happy New Year! 'I' had a good vacation in Greece and returned home last night- rained half the time but that gave space for reading , movies and less busy activity. During this period I read the Jed McKenna trilogy of books. Entertaining but so deep at the same time. Felt real joy. I ...

Thank you Ilona for the video link. Apology for slight delay as I leave to Greece for my Christmas holiday till Jan 4th. Have watched also the video on resistance I enjoyed. Will enjoy it again and send my thoughts in coming weeks. Wishing you a lovely holiday if you are taking one.

Love
Steven

Hi Ilona,

Yes I am ready now. I notice that my thinking mind has exhausted itself that there is disinterest in even generating questions. It's almost as if I ask another question it is unnecessary and only serves a purpose for my thinking mind.

I am in Not Knowing and not understanding on this ...

Hi Ilona,

Thank you for your response.
. Do you need to do anything in order to be aware? Do you need to be someone in order to be aware? Or is it on by default?


It's on by default. I can do nothing to be aware. Or to change it. It simply is. I was going to write that awareness diminishes e.g ...

What do you mean by not being? Is there ever not being? Can you stop being at will or by accident?


Hi Ilona,

I use the phrase Not Being as more a pointing to a different sense of being than the narrow self I try to develop, protect, defend as an apparently separate atomised human being. For me ...

Hi Ilona

Thank you for guiding me. Mostly I am tired. Tired of efforting, trying to 'become' someone, living with fear of insecurity. I am tired with 'making it' and all efforts and practices. I am looking to drop all these things as I don't have the energy or will to play that game. I am looking ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
That there only appears to be a separate self. That although it is functional the belief in separation creates disharmony in protecting, defending or extending this individual we believe ourself to ...