H Vivien,

Yes sure, I know I am using "I", "me", "we" in my answers but I don't know how to express otherwise, and also english is not my native language. I'm really amazed and grateful that you don't give up easily on me and you are trying to see that everything is clear. I really appreciate that ...

Hi Vivien,

1. No, there is no separate self at all, in any shape and form and never was.

2. The illusion of separate self starts from a very young age when we start learning a language. We are given some name and we are told you are this, I am that. From there on everything is centered about this ...

Hi Vivien,

Are you ready for these final questions?
Or is there anything that is not super clear and you would like to look at?

Yes I am ready for the final questions. No, nothing right now that is not clear.

Thank you for your time and guidance. Much gratitude for you and everyone here helping ...

Hi Vivien,

Can you please say about these aha moments a bit more?
Can you point to the part of this inquiry when this happened?

There were two points in this inquiry when I had those moments. The first one was at the beginning with doing the inquiry for free will and choice, when I told you that ...

Hi Vivien,

Would you say that there has been a shift from an intellectual understanding of there being no separate self to an experiential recognition?

If, yes how does the shift itself FELT?

Yes, much more than when we started. I can't say it felt like something, it was more like "aha" moments ...

Hi Vivien,

Is there anything that doesn’t happen on its own?
Is there any doing at all?

No there is no doing at all, everything is happening on it's own. No one doing anything just things, thoughts, sensations, happening.

Is there a sense of a doer in your everyday life when not looking?
Does ...

Hi Vivien,

Do you think that there is such thing as a mind?
How does mind experienced in this very moment?
What it is in this moment, as you observe it?

There is no such thing as mind, there is only thoughts and images. Observing it is seeing thoughts happening, planning happening, one thought ...

Hi Vivien,

If you experience the feeling/sensation, then how could you be that same feeling/sensation? Do you see the faulty of this logic?

Omg how did I not notice this?? it is so obvious, I am FEELING this sensations, I can only notice and know this sensation, how it can be ME? I see now that ...

Hi Vivien,

But what if there is no I at all, that could ‘am’ or be? The whole point of this investigation is to see that there is literally nothing that can be identified and said: ‘this is what I am’. Since there is no I whatsoever that could be anything. It’s about seeing that the word I ...

Hi VIvien,

Sorry for the late reply I wasn't feeling okay this few days.

The impression I get from your replies is that you are investigating things on the ‘level of the head’, investigating thinking and not really investigating the felt sense of me, on the level of the body (but please correct ...

Hi Vivien,

To be completely honest when I first read the questions, I knew and I had this feeling that sometimes in everyday life I still feel that this I is doing something or more like it is not completely gone. Looking back on the day I can see that everything was done pretty automatic and that ...

Hi Vivien,

So when I say ‘on behalf of an actual, real person’ what I mean if there is there is a person inside the body, whom all these thoughts are about? Or there are only thoughts about a me, but not an actual autonomous entity living inside the body, protected by the skin?

There are only ...

Hi Vivien,

But there has never ever been a self, who could control anything, and yet decisions have been made, plans for the future have been made, and actions based on those decisions have been performed, even at difficult or ‘bad’ times. So actually nothing has changed. Just the fact of there ...

HI Vivien,

Please spend the following day to checking if any thought were thought by a ‘person inside the head’ or thoughts happen on their own, without anyone doing it.

Looking back on the previous days, I can't find a thought that "I" thought. Every thought seems that is happening on its own ...

Hi Vivien,

But do you really see that thoughts don’t appear at any location, or you just made a logical conclusion?

What is making thoughts to appear?

No it is not logical conclusion, I can't find or see any specific location that they appear.
Sometimes it looks like some thoughts appear ...