Dear Alan

A huge hearty thank you for guiding this essential to life journey. Perhaps I can do the same for others in a year or so.

Wherever we "arrive" is ALWAYS only the beginning
Yes yes yes! Not ego clinging to what has been seen through. even to share with someone ‘hey I’m through gate ...

Thank you thank you thank you Alan.

Annette

Hello!

5) From your own experience of no self please talk about
decision, & give examples from experience.

Decisions seem to arise spontaneously presumably as a result of infinite conditions coming together but in DE quite mysteriously.
Apart from its noticeable that images arise before a so ...

Hello again

So part 2

4) Can you remember any specific moment where there was an epiphany? ....a before and after seeing the actuality of no self? Was there a point when you ‘got it’?

Yes it was a few weeks ago while writing to reflect on this material that it suddenly became clear that I was ...

Hello Alan

So here goes

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

No absolutely not (big smile). Such joy whenever that is made conscious like now.
Sitting here now the senses are experiencing things without solid boundaries ...

Hello Alan

The context you wrote is sooooooo helpful. That’s totally the case.

There’s a definite spark and draw to finding out more about the ten fetters model. does anyone guide this?

Are these reports that you made earlier still true for you right now?
Yes absolutely true and even more so ...

Hello Alan

Thank you so much for your response. Glad to hear from you.

But before I send them I'd like to check if there is anything in particular that you would like to explore or is there any doubt at all that there no such entity as an "I"?

Well one thing is
thoughts with i as the subject ...

Part 3
what would you I say to someone about:
What controls what's happening in one's life?

‘No one controls what’s happening in the sense of a me or I or you or them.
That’s hard to comprehend if considered only mentally/as a concept.
Yet can be seen by looking into direct experience, that ...

Hello Alan

Catching up with your recent questions:

Just sit with the irritation and see what happens. Is there anything to report from sitting with this?

When felt into is this irritation actually a feeling of "I don't want this" - a subtle form of resistance?

Quite a lot of anger and ...

Dear Alan
How tricky are the roots of the delusion of I. Lots of ideas views stories of what this life is isn’t can’t be.

A keeping safe of some unreal life!
Unconscious urges habits desires obscuring this here now actual aliveness.

Manifesting this weekend with four days of no structure or ...

Ah a typo.
Should read
‘Resistance to what is’

Ax

Hello Alan
Your response brought joy. Thank you!

What would you tell someone who wonders about the truth of no-self about

How choices are made?

What controls what's happening in one's life?

Woah big questions Alan!

I’m going to take a day or two to answer.

I’ve cancelled a lot of stuff ...

Hello Alan

Warm greetings


Would you say this could considered to be a shift in some way in contrast to what was happening say a few months ago?

Yes indeed! It's qualitatively different. More felt experience and less mental component.

Where does this peace come from?

well that's a great ...

Dear Alan
I’ve arrived back home and a few things come to mind. Visiting my mum is a regular event and usually there’s stress and anxiety on both sides.

This time there was about 40% less stress /anxiety my end. And less proliferation of thought trains. Also a couple of times a day there was this ...

Hello Alan

Warm greetings and thank you for that affirming response.

Now that sentence:

Out of jail - for a time.
I know that you know but I need to ask.

Is that not just a thought, a concept?

What happens if you simply ignore it?

Or ....... as you look at it for what it is, relaxing into ...