Hi John
I hope this finds you well.

Sorry for not replying earlier I just found your last post 2 days ago and was really happy that you are OK, I presume, although busy.
My E mail service had "hidden" the notification of your last post, the other day it allowed me to disactivate its sorting and ...

Hi John

How are things with you ?

I sent a private message weeks ago but I´m posting this incase it didn´t arrive.

Best wishes
Nigel.

Hi John

" ownership " Just another idea in a sea of ideas creating a mental landscape.

Part of the mental looping, one concept chasing another as the wings on a electric fan, only when spinning fast enough does it creat the sense of solidity. As more silent , spacious stillness is seen between ...

Hi John

"So, let's say, over there, is a human being mentally looping.

Just watch that one.

See what intuitions show up about what is going on for them."

The mental looping seems to be an automatic process a kind of default activity, here there is usually very little interest in its activity ...

Hi John,

Separate from what?

Good question ...

The idea is that the body delimited by the skin is separate from everything else.

This is just a learnt idea, a tribesperson in the amazon might have a completely different view.

The idea here is that any idea really maintains one in the realm of ...

Hi John

Yes I agree with the idea of the idea of the idea of self. All I can see there is a bundle of ideas all forming self, like a ball made of rubber bands. With greater clarity the rubber bands fall away slowly and life is easier. Here the self idea doesn´t seem too attractive as often it (the ...

Hi John,

Just a short note as I have just found your last post, no notification arrived again.

I shall look into the "idea of the idea of self" more closely.

Sorry about the delay, now I know how to check the topic from another link.

I hope the shopping was ok :)

Best wishes
Nigel

Hi John

Thanks for the indications.
....
There's our natural being.
And there's the perception/story/impression of self as an autonomous being - to which we may identify - which is 'projected' on top (as it were). Augmented, as the youngsters might say. :D

Our natural being has no name, nor gives ...

Hi John

I continue looking at the self as another perception, it seems very freeing. The self idea is not so obvious here, as a lot has been dropped over time, but it is still maintaining itself.

I look at an ordinary perception and then that sense of that which is recieving it ,often mentally ...

Hi John
I couldn´t write yesterday as the site was down.

Yes, we're not bothered about content, but about realising that this IS A PERCEPTION.

I´ve been looking at this, concentrating on the ....this IS A PERCEPTION.... part especially.

I´m finding this useful, thank you John.

With gratitude ...

I wrote a longer reply but it got timed out and lost so I´ll keep to the point.

What if you saw the sense of self which is built on ideas etc as a perception, neither true or false.
A perception. A mere perception, a view.

I like this point of seeing it as a perception a view. Fortunately here I ...

When this fundamental "no-thing-ness" is attended to, it seems here to act as a very efficent means of removing/lightening the sense of self which is built on ideas etc.

Here there is a sense that these constricting emotions and ideas are contained in the body as blockages both physical ( muscular ...

When there are times when the ideas emotions etc are not present or given attention everything continues.

There is no identification with the self built on ideas.

Then a " empty space " a no thing is noticed.

I think this is what you are refering to as... something else is going on, something ...

When there are times when the ideas emotions etc are not present or given attention everything continues.

There is no identification with the self built on ideas.

Then a " empty space " a no thing is noticed.

I think this is what you are refering to as... something else is going on, something ...

As we looked at before any concrete location would be the head, here behind the eyes as the visual perception is dominanat here.

What I refer to as the observer is a completely different order. Some years ago I was in that position for a short time, I cannot really comment much there due to its ...