Hi Vivien,

Thankyou so much for your time and dedication. The last few weeks have been a joy and I always woke up excited to see an email notification in my inbox. It worked very well with the different time zones as I had an entire day to look at things and sometimes wrote notes during the day ...

Hi Vivien,

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

No, there is no entity. There is nothing to be found. There can be thoughts or sensations to do with a self however a self can’t be found.

Was there ever?

No. There wasn’t a self that was ...

Hi Vivien,

Can you say with certainly that it has been clearly seen that there is no separate self in reality?
Is there any doubt?

Yes, I can say with certainty. There are no doubts. There can be, and are, “I” or ‘Me” thoughts which are seen merely as thoughts.

Is there anything that is not ...

Hi Vivien,

I’d like to start off by saying the word body is simply a word. The concept of a body is thought content and thought ideas. The visual representation of the body is colour and shade. Sound and sensation and taste and smell are experience and have no connection to thought content. So I ...

Maybe you have an expectation how seeing non-separation should be like, and you compare it with the current seeing with the conclusion “this is not it!”. So let’s look into this.
Is there an experiencer outside of experience? Can you find one? Or you can only ever imagine one?

There is no ...

Hi Vivien,

Is there anything that is standing apart separately from experience?

No. Even story or thought content is not separate as it is reality in the form of a thought.

What about the body? Is the body the experiencer? Or the body shows up AS experience?

Body is a story about ...

I’d like to clarify the sentence, “I found it very easy to be looking without feeling I was doing anything to make things happen” because it sounds as though I was attempting to feel a certain way. That is not the case. There was the looking at the happening and an obvious noticing that there wasn’t ...

Can you see that continuity or that one caused the other is just a story, nothing else?

Yes. It is obvious that one thought causing another thought is in itself a third thought whose content is as fictitious as any thought. Thinking something to be a certain way is part of a story.

When walking ...

Hi Vivien,

There wasn’t any looking today so if it’s alright with you, I’ll post again tomorrow with my findings.

Cheers,

HaHo

Hi Vivien,

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 we can. Your explanation makes good sense. We could be at this for years otherwise.

Are you sure that there is an actual triggering going on ...

So you had an experience while you were walking… but how do your replies to the questions came about? As a deduction from what you saw when you were walking, or you’ve investigated every single question thoroughly and replied to them from a fresh seeing in that very moment?

The answers came from ...

We are looking at thoughts in DE as a phenomenon.
When you focus on the content of a thought, then it’s not DE. But when you can notice thoughts as phenomena, then you look at the thoughtness of them directly… without getting lost in the content.

Observing thoughts is a skill, and it can be ...

This is very difficult and frustrating. If I use direct experience only, I can’t answer these questions. DE is sound, colour, touch, taste, smell, sensations, thought. These raw sensory inputs are not enough to answer questions. I need to be able to conceptualize and ponder the questions. A ...

Hi Vivien,

What is it exactly that has a character?

It could be said there is a character associated with the human, so the human has a character with preferences and other characteristics that make it unique. But that is embellishing What Is with story. When looking for a character in ...

So where is HaHo that has personality and reputation?
Where is he/she?
Where does HaHo resides / lives / exists?

HaHo is the construct that resides in thought only, so to speak. In the thoughts associated with this body and, apparently, the thoughts of other bodies. There is no HaHo in reality ...