Thanks Stacy.

Hi Stacy,

Thanks so much. I was half expecting you to say I wasn’t done. This is so strange, everything is so similar, yet I can feel the difference. I’ll watch out for messages and try and catch some meetings. What is the best way to settle in? For now I am watching for when the single view ...

Hi Stacy,

Let’s see what you make of this :-)

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
I can’t find anything in direct experience. Which just leaves thought. Thoughts comes and go out of nowhere. I have no control of this, they ...

Hi Stacy,

I’m willing to give the final questions a go. Talking on things being the same but different, I had an experience of sorts at work today. Suddenly I felt very strange almost dizzy. It felt like I was taller or closer to the ceiling. I was noticing a lot more, seeing everything in more ...

How does it FEEL to see this?
It feels simple, free and a relief.

Has seeking fallen away?
I would say so, when I stay in DE I am quite sure I can’t find it. I am worried though that the thought element isn’t quite worked out. Are all thoughts lies, or just selfing thoughts? I feel more like a ...

Hi Stacy,

No. Without thoughts or labels, in sight there are shapes and colours, size and depth. I can’t see a self anywhere, the view is mostly headless with this body hanging underneath it. In sound there is the world’s noises, I can’t hear a self anywhere. In smell and taste, no sign of a self ...

Hi Stacy,

So grateful for your help. Yes I’ll keep practising how I have been and check more areas of my life. Staying in DE as much as possible the concepts seem to be fading and there is more acceptance of what is. This is very pleasant. Today should have been stressful but I just seemed to ...

Yes. Today I have been focussing on DE. Occasionally dropped in the question, “can I find any self here”, but not let that spiral into conceptual thinking about it. At work I wrote down a list of all the things that frustrate me about my job, and accepted them as the way things are, rather than the ...

Yes, that was just an idea. A thought made up with no evidence in DE. There seems to be a lot of effort being made to find some way out. Watching DE, things just happen one after another. No mechanism can be found, just aliveness, the senses and the world. It’s the thoughts that don’t like this ...

In step 1 when thinking about their respective qualities, did you ‘choose’ the qualities? Or did they kind of appear by themselves? If some preferences manifested, did you ‘choose’ these preferences? Or did they just pop up by themselves?
The ideas of coolness, fruitiness and sweetness for the ...

Hi Stacy,

Hope you are doing well.

Has seeking dropped away?
I've certainly felt quite good since Friday, there doesn't seem to be any seeking here.

Can you say with 100% certainty there is no separate "self?"
This is trickier. I don't feel that much different. When I ask myself this question ...

I’ve continued to focus on DE. The flow is still enjoyable, things just happen one after the other without having to worry about them. I also noticed a couple of times today when seeing the scene and part of the body was in visible, it seemed to be part of the view. The experience is one of ...

I have been only looking at direct experience today. I dropped the looking for the self part, I assume that’s what you meant. In any case, pretty confident I’m not going to find a self there anyway, so why bother. Turned out to be a very pleasant day focussing on DE. I also had the day off work, but ...

Working on looking today whenever I remembered to. There saw seeing, hearing, tension, head acing, talking, thinking, sensation. The direct experience was of these things as the are, open, clear, transparent almost. I also tried to look for the experiencer of these experiences, peak behind the ...

Hi Stacy,

Present experience.

Can you find *anything* in Direct Experience that is a "self?" LOOK with your eyes. Where is it?
With focus on direct experience, seeing happens without effort or will, it is just there. There is no self in that, it just is. Hearing, tasing and smelling are the same ...