Are you talking here about a sense of being localised in the body?
No I'm not really talking about being localised in the body, which is just a cloud of sensations / sense experiences labelled body and essentially there is no findable boundary to be localised within. Still, areas ...
Did this exercise with some chocolate as no apple to hand. Apple / chocolate is just a label/ identification given to DE / actual experience of sight, touch, smell, taste. Could say sound as well, from chewing, as chocolate had nuts in ...
Is there any overall ‘quality’ or ‘ feeling tone’ to the experience?
There is no longer a feeling of being separate, apart, distanced from. Not a feeling of ‘me’ here and everything / everyone else there. Tho life is still navigated appropriately in social terms and not bumping into things. This ...
Another guide has asked if you can elaborate more on how the seeing feels. What does it feel like to see in this moment? I'm not quite sure (again) what is meant by 'feel'? Does this mean emotion, or what is being experienced more generally? In this moment there is what is seen ...
Thanks for posting the questions. [ quote] 1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me', 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?[/quote]
No there is not a separate entity / self / me / I at all, anywhere to be found. There never has been.
How does it feel to see this? It feels OK. In previous times when first looking / seeing it was quite overwhelming, but not any more. Don't see how it could be any other way, no other way has been found to date.
Would you be able to elaborate a bit more about being unsure where ...
I say ‘return to clarity’ as a way of speaking, but in your experience, is there an actual entity that goes in and out of clarity/seeing? Or is there just the clarity?
No, there isn't an entity that goes in and out of clarity. It's more like a shift of ...
How does it feel to distinguish the content of thought from actual experience?
When distinguishing the content of thought from actual experience things generally feel much more straightforward and simple. For whatever reason tho, sometimes the distinction is lost and then things ...
By identification, do you also mean another thought? Or something else? If it’s something else, see if you can describe it from direct (or raw, as you said) experience
Yes, identification is what the mind can do with the raw data of experience, which can be useful. You could call ...