Hi Vince,I've not dropped this - just want time to fully answer - as before I answered without giving proper time and you called me on it - so will circle back at the weekend

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape, or form?
Was there ever? No

2) Share in your own words what the illusion of a separate self is and how it shows up in experience. Also, through your inquiry, what is different now? The illusion of the separate ...

Does thought do what you tell it to? ..or do you do what thought tells you to?

Nothing is telling me what to do

Is thought separate from ourselves or part of us?

Thought is part of us - nothing is separate

How did a belief in Santa come about? read it in a book -

Again, it appears as if you are investing thought with free will and intention. How did the labels that thought used, come about? I read it in a book. Somebody told me.
Is thought a master or a slave? slave
Are we separate to thought ...

I'm guessing that this is just a language thing, but if there isn't a self, how can you create one?
Can you tell me how the illusion of a self came into existence
Yes I thought there was a self, I thought I existed, the illusion came into existence because just as I believed in Santa Clause I ...

I'm guessing that this is just a language thing, but if there isn't a self, how can you create one?
Can you tell me how the illusion of a self came into existence
Yes I thought there was a self, I thought I existed, the illusion came into existence because just as I believed in Santa Clause I ...

I'm guessing that this is just a language thing, but if there isn't a self, how can you create one?
Can you tell me how the illusion of a self came into existence
Yes I thought there was a self, I thought I existed, the illusion came into existence because just as I believed in Santa Clause I ...

I'm guessing that this is just a language thing, but if there isn't a self, how can you create one?
Can you tell me how the illusion of a self came into existence
Yes I thought there was a self, I thought I existed, the illusion came into existence because just as I believed in Santa Clause I ...

I'm guessing that this is just a language thing, but if there isn't a self, how can you create one?
Can you tell me how the illusion of a self came into existence
Yes I thought there was a self, I thought I existed, the illusion came into existence because just as I believed in Santa Clause I ...

Apologies for not getting back sooner - meanwhile during the hiatus it has been really helpful to see the unfolding flow of process
Good day Buminjah, let's go through these questions and see if there are areas that we might investigate further.
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at ...

Thanks will do.
Just snowed under with having to get my taxes done - so will report back by wednesday - just don't want you to think i have fallen of the edge of the world hahah. Or have disappeared into no thing ness

So having seen this, what is the story about a Self?
it is a magic trick - I mean who made up the story of kings and queens and royalty. who made up that black people are inferior to white people? women are inferior to men? The self is the biggest human lie that has ever been told, a fraud, a scam ...

Thank You Vince for stepping in -

So what happened to the seer and the seen?
What was happening with thoughts while this was happening?


In those moments there was no seer, just unfolding flow of experience - nothing to grasp onto,. No distinction between seer and seen.

There was no thought ...

Let us change this process a bit, do the following exercise.

Take a cup and put it in front of you. Now just look at it.
Thoughts want to be busy so they will analyze and label characteristics of it.
Keep doing this for a while, but eventually they will get bored and there will appear gaps between ...

Will do this next exercise.. for sure - and

A question - how does on know it is taste - surely a thought is saying this is taste?
how does one know it is sensation - surely a thought is saying this is sensation?
whoever told me taste - yes i see in the taste the taste , in the seen the seen , in ...