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


No. There is simply a current experience happening. This experience includes a story about a character that is known via thoughts and memories. What was considered the "separate" body is experienced ...

Fire away.

Is there any doubt left? Or can you say with a big fat YES that it’s clear the I, as a separate self is an illusion?

YES

Vivien.

Today I was out under a tree working. Beautiful day. It occurred to me that all the elements of that current experience (now just a memory) were just there. The sky, the sun, the tree, the colors, the sensations and breeze. It was just sudden awareness of the present moment. Then this ...

I'm not sure how to respond to yet. I think I need a few day with these questions.

Any time any of these elements are looked at, it's seen that that particular element of experience is only divided into categories or things only by thoughts. Including the experiences that are labeled as "me" or "my ...

So is there any separation of me and not-me in reality?

No me can be found that is responsible for experiencing. Everything is being experienced. Or everything is just experience.

Been asking, what is/was the belief exactly before this looking anyway? What was the model? Basically that thinking ...

Is the body separate from life / experience, having a life / experience? Or the body IS life / experience?


Are you using these words interchangeably? That helps. Gonna assume that's what you mean by life/experience and answer these with just using experience if that's ok.

Is experience ...

That all right, if there is a seeming ‘awareness of…’. The question is if there is something separate from what is being ‘awared’ or known?


All that can be found is awareness of. This includes awareness of thought, sensations (the body), and perceptions. There's nothing left to be called "me ...

Hi Vivien


just this experience as it is HERE NOW. Just what is happening in present moment experience.


This is something that is becoming focused. An intense awareness of nowness. All experience HERE NOW and gone...moving. Experience and time can't coexist. Only now is there experiencing ...

Made it a point to stay in this "mindset" so to speak since waking up this morning about paying attention to what is ACTUALLY present during times of thinking I'm doing or thinking etc. Tried to stay relaxed today.

One thing noticed this morning was talking. It was noticed after the fact at first ...

So every time I ask a question, you always have to look afresh, to see it again and again what is being pointed it. Can we agree on this?


Yes.


Understanding is not here now, since understanding is just the content of a thought, which is only the experience of a thought, but not ...

Have you actually looked with these questions, our you just wrote down your thoughts about it?


You're right. I apologize. There was some discouragement. The last couple days. Thank you for not letting me slack.

The question was, "how is witnessing experienced?" and is "witnessing something ...

Got a little more time here.


What is the difference between understanding and clearly seeing it to be the fact of reality?


Understanding implies thinking.

How is it known that the eyes see?

It's learned early. Accepted as the story of explanation for what is seen since childhood.


Focus ...

I’m going to be honest with you. Somehow your replies don’t add up. It seems to me that something is off. That the seeing is not complete.


Thank you. This is why I asked you personally.


And how witnessing is experienced?
Is this witnessing something different than experience itself?


No I ...

But what does the visual field have to do with the notion of a self? Just because the self is seen to be an illusion, why should the visuals change?


I see this. I was saying that before understanding separation is about the illusion of "me" and "not me" the idea was that somehow things would ...