Kento,

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

No. There is no separate entity. There is no entity, and there never was.

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

Hi Kento,

Do you want to proceed to a final set of
questions asked at the end of a conversation?

Yes.

Alan

Hi Kento,

What do you further guidance for?

I don't know. This enquiry has been very eye-opening. I will continue direct experience as I go through the days ahead. I went back and reviewed our posts, and re-read the comment stating, "I feel like I am a separate self. That belief has been ...

Kento,


These experiences would not be recognized were it not for awareness.
Is this 100% true?

No. I have no direct experience to confirm 100% that this is true.

Could you say that this description is coming from your direct observation of
what is here and now?

No, That description was ...

Kento,

What about when you make nice cup of coffee and enjoy a sip of it?
Is it "just awareness"?

While sipping coffee, there is the direct experience of taste, smell, and sensation along with awareness of these direct experiences.

I'm trying to stay with direct experience and stay out of my ...

Hi Kento,

Are "I" and "awareness" separate?

There is just awareness. There is no "I" experience.

Sincerely,

Alan

Kento,


Does the name have to be "awareness"? Can you replace the word awareness with other words?
Here
Now
Familiar
Knowing
Intimate
Being
Everything
Dimensionless
Oneness

Please investigate what you call "awareness,"
and choose a most precise name to describe it.

I am awareness ...

Hello Kento,

Giving attention to thoughts and beliefs, takes attention away from direct experience.

And what is it that is giving attention?

Awareness is attention.

What is "attention" if you don't think about attention?

Attention is always ever present... it "is". Thought experience ...

Hi Kento,

Regarding inquired into THIS VERY THING:

Another question that points to the same place is:
What is typing a reply? Another point is, as you wrote, what is it in direct experience?


Direct experiences while typing a reply included:
the experience of color (laptop screen)
the ...

Kento,


And does it matter whether you refute it or not? :)

Haha! Yeah, there's nothing to refute...and no one to do the refuting!


Have you inquired into THIS VERY THING?

Great question!!! This might be a major breakthrough question as I am unable to answer with certainty. I am observing ...

Kento,

I just had this observation and want to share it with you.

Concerning direct experience:

a color is the experience of color
a sound is an experience of sound
a sensation is an experience of sensation
a thought is an experience of thought.

While there is awareness of these direct ...

Hi Kento,


Could it be clearly observed that, that was a thought pointing to another thought?
Yes, it is clearly observed that one thought points to another and another etc.


You still sound uncertain. What is causing this "perhaps" in the sentence?
Concerning the question, what is this VERY ...

Kento,


If there is a thought "there is a self", is that "self" the self per se, or is
it more of a thought content?


The "self" that is being referred to in the thought "there is a separate self", is only a thought content. When that thought vanishes from awareness, there is no self.
A belief ...

Hi Kento,


I'm very glad to see that something is dawning on you.

Yes, surely there is an experience of "something dawning".


In case you are crystal clear that you've seen through the illusion
of the separate "self," we could move on to the final set of
questions that are asked at the end of ...

Kento,


Do you still feel that there is an entity called self, concrete and separate from
everything else?

To report that there is a "feeling" of self and the separation of the self from everything else cannot be a truth! It is only thoughts that believe there is both self and separation. My ...