If you look at something, any object - what tells you that you, the subject is any different from the object seen?

what can be seen/thought/heard/sensed is not me

My last post is quite something. Physical alteration can and does happen.
whatever is felt involuntarily is within the body
I don't really know what I meant by that. The voluntary/involuntary dichotomy is similar to (or maybe the same as) the expected/unexpected one. In any case, it doesn't make ...

Could you have a closer look into the sort of diffusion?
What exactly is it?

It is just another way to talk about letting go of thoughts, even though you have said that this is not the point. It is a thought about letting go of images/thoughts, only instead of letting them go, they are let to ...

There is something offered by thoughts in a habitual way.
Do you see that?

Yes and it does not hit at the same spot anymore. There is some sort of diffusion which can make it easier to stay with the sensation that is to be looked at (or 'what is looking').


No thought about initiating. There ...

My understanding of 'watching' is that it means staying with the sensation. Not lingering on it or try to understand it. Just letting it unroll. If I try to see where the sensation starts and where it ends I go into visualisation/interpretation.

Sender is happening in a story, why should that stop?
I don't know. There are feelings about Sender right now. Mostly what one could call compassion or pity. Sender is seen as a vehicle to understand and end suffering, and that makes me feel bad for wanting to 'use' her in that way. Again, however ...

Who or what is tempted?
Noone and nothing. There is a habit for disclosing content of thought. Noone has that habit. An endeavour to check out why and how the disclosure happens can be apparently paired up with 'unwelcome' emotions and sensations. This seems to be a different kind of work though ...

There is less 'riding out' thoughts. There is the thought that if I take some days off, my replies here will be less 'cooked'/more spontaneous. There is (still) a slight headache/tension when a reply is written, as though it has to perfectly describe what is going on, but there is also an excitement ...

So if you use direct looking the only place you can find Sender is in thoughts, right?

Yes

Not in the body, not in the headspace, not in the cupboard, or is there still an idea around where Sender the entity might be found?

There are sensations that are thought to be consistent and there is ...

Look into this: What is feared to be lost?

The familiarity of believing thoughts, stuckness, distance, my high horse, people not being invulnerable/concrete. These are thoughts.

Your suggestion to look lightly is helpful too.

I made the resolution to not drink coffee during this time but it ...

Remember there is nothing not This/What is!
The story is what is, the seeing it is a story is what is, the feeling expansion is what is, to fall back into the story is what is ,thoughts are what is and so on. There is simply nothing wrong with anything. All is well.

Nice to have these spelled out ...

There has been an opening since yesterday. What is behind thoughts is felt and abiding there can last. 'No effort' is better understood/experienced.

Any idea how tall the body is?
Can you be sure that there are toes, and how many?
Can you be sure that there is an inside or outside of something ...

Well, it can't be known, right? There is some taking in but is it Sender?
Again a sentences with 'sense' in it. In this case it is a thought again aka a belief. There is the belief that there is a head, a body, a mind.
If you close your eyes and look for the three, what do you find?

The taking in ...

What of this would you find in your direct experience right now?

Nothing. There is just movement/visual input, sound, sitting sensation.

Any idea where they come from and go to?
They just exist depending on how attention is configured here.
What attention and by whom?

By noone. What I call ...

If you sit quietly for a moment and just observe thoughts coming and going.
Are you making up the thoughts or are they just coming and going?

It seems that I do not make them up nor do they just come and go. The way I can put it is that there is an emotional state that illuminates stimuli. This ...