Dearest Ron,
Wow, thank you so much for your loving and warm guidance! You have been most kind in your guidance and fun during this process. Being guided by you made all the difference in the world, and having to do homework everyday kept me looking. I really appreciate your time and effort and ...

Hi Ron,

5) a) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work?
Give examples from your own recent experiences to how things happen and how things work.
There is no free will. Choice, desision, control are all thought concepts that create the ...

Hi Ron,

But is time real, or is time a thought concept
Time is a thought concept. There is only the experience of what is happening in this moment. I am not present in any other time than what is happening right now.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way ...

Hi Ron,
Thanxs😊

is there a Nicolette who runs life?
When I focus on the senses only and I'm in the now, everything feels clear and there is no thought of 'Nicolette' and no anxiety about if she is real or running the show, or not. When thoughts appear, I fall back into imagination and a murkiness ...

Hi Ron,

are you the doer of things?
On the face of it, it seems so, especially as I move my body forward and rush to get things done. This is what I think to myself.
Getting out of bed, I have the though to do it, and all moving parts go where they should in the blink of an eye, including my ...

Hi Ron,

do you feel a shift in how you perceive that self?
Yes, I have felt a shift and that shift feels good, but then I start thinking my way out of it.

Yes, there is doubt and resistance. There is a desire to overcomplicate things and an attachment to thoughts as a distraction from ...

Hi Ron,

How does it all feel?
It feels good and natural. There's a little excitement. There's a little fear. The attention is here and I feel alive.
I'm still stuck on 'me' and the 'body' and the thought of it pulls me back. As soon as I put my attention on DE, everything feels wider. I see that ...

Hi Ron,

But is there one to be found?
Is there an observer be separated from what is just happening?
Try as I might, looking hard for someone or something, there is no one or nothing to be found.

Is there any separation between the seen and the knowing of it? - the experience of the seen?
No ...

Hi Ron,

There is no body. I keep on focusing 'within when doing the exercises', separating it from the 'without' and I do that via closing me eyes which helps me to focus only on the 'within', but this 'inside/outside' is a thought. I practice by opening my eyes and closing my eyes intermittently ...

Good day to you, Ron

(a) What is the pretend smell made of? (what is it?)
A memory of me smelling the actual fruit before I put it down on the table to start the exercise.

b) What is the pretend taste made of?
A memory of the day before when I ate an actual piece of the same fruit.

Describe ...

Hi Ron,
Let's try again.

I close my eyes as I answer these questions:
Can it be known how tall the body is?
No. I stand up and sit down, but I can't tell you how tall the body is.

Does the body have a weight or volume?
No. It just is.

In the actual experience does the body have a shape or a ...

Hello Ron

Attention goes to the sensation, locate it e.g. "contraction in the chest", and notice, does that sensation say anything at all about the tag "fear"? Is there anything here except that raw sensations and the thoughts?
The sensation doesn't say anything as I put my attention on it and ...

Hi Ron,
Thank you😊

If fear arises, find the body sensation... drop the thoughts and focus on that body sensation. Without the thoughts about it, isn't it just a sensation? Can you let that sensation just be?
This is helpful! I am practicing this, right now. It helps to focus on the sensation only ...

Hi Ron,
back from my break😁

And isn't that a thought?
Oh, my word, yes. I felt it as an emotion, but now I see it's a thought.

Did you create it? 😉
I want to say yes but no, I did not. It popped into my mind the same way a country just instantly appeared in my head doing the previous exercise ...

Hi Ron,
I am in a bit of a quandary over wether I control my thoughts or not, just to give you a heads up. And thank you for pointing it out that I have been rationalizing, lol. It's probably going to be on going, oh boy.🤓

It's essential to be very clear about thoughts, they are creating the story ...