Hi Luchana,

Thank you so much for all your help and guidance over the past few months! Great appreciation for the pointers, exercises, and patience you shared with me on this journey. I will look for the follow up message and will look for you in the FB group :)

With love and gratitude,
Mike

Hi Luchana,

"The thought of a separate self is not gone, it still arises from time to time and looked for underlying conditioning that needs resolution."

Is there an expectation or desire that the thoughts of a separate self shouldn't appear?
No there isn’t an expectation or desire that these ...

Hi Luchana,

I've missed something in the 5th question. so here it is again:

5)

a) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work?
Give examples from your own recent experiences to how things happen and how things work.
These are labels to ...

Hello dearest Luchana, hope all is well :-)

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
There is no self, no me, no I, no separate entity that is driving the show or just plain observing behind the scenes what is happening nor could ...

Hi Luchana,

Of course you can ask more questions :-)

Can you point to the moment you moved from an intellectual-based understanding of there being no separate self to a holistic experience of it?

Through this process it felt as though there were two key moments that culminated in this shift ...

Hi Luchana :)

How does it feel to see that the self is imaginary?
There is a feeling of openness, lightness in everything, less heaviness [stress/anxiety] and more calm.

Do you notice any change, something that can be called a shift?
There is little to no concern over how the image of persona ...

Hello Luchana,

Can you find a non-tangible one?
No.

there is awareness of the body but it does not belong to anything
Let's make an exercise and investigate this.

Put your attention onto the sensations of your hands.
And while you are feeling your hands, try to find where those sensations are ...

Hi Luchana,

Can it be actually seen “an awareness embedding this flow of happenings”?
Or it is rather assumption?
No - there is no awareness separate, it is all part of what is happening. My surroundings just are what they are, there is no self separately experiencing it is all happening together ...

Hi Luchana,

This did not lead to a big explosion of sudden awareness
Do you believe that seeing through the self means to become a clear, never changing, never ending awareness in the background of the happenings of all phenomena?

There is no self to be seen through, no unchanging and never ...

Hi Luchana,

So can you say with 100% certainty that it's seen experientially that there is no self, or it's mainly an intellectual understanding?
Yes, I can say with certainty that experientially it has been seen there is no self. A felt general sense of ease and lightness with everything ...

Hi Luchana,

Sorry for the slight delay in responding, was exhausted yesterday.

Can you say with 100% certainty that there is no such thing a chooser?
There is no such thing as a chooser, this is certain.

Is it completely clear that there is no I/me choosing or deciding?
This too is certain ...

Hi Luchana,

So HOW is this 'perceived me' is perceived exactly?

In looking at HOW this perceived me is perceived it is like a fog lifted, it is quite clear this perceived me is nothing more than thought. There was much giddiness over seeing this clearly at first yesterday and the clarity ...

Hi Luchana, hope all is well, working from home beginning today and I must say its rather convenient :)

Am sticking to answering the questions one by one as you request and as forthcoming as I can get.

WHAT is it exactly that gets into thinking?
A perceived me is what gets into thinking ...

Hi Luchana,

Thanks again for your wonderful guidance.

WHAT is it exactly that gets into thinking?
Where is this I that could think or observe?
And where and what is the I which has to power to release the other self?

Good questions. And what am I releasing when noticing that thinking is ...

Hi Luchana,

Thank you for the detailed reply. I concur with a lot of what you describe in items 1-3 of your response. I sometimes find it difficult to explain my experience clearly in my responses and that could be contributing to some confusion as well.

Today has been rather busy at work and I ...