Here is a step-by-step description of how to look at thoughts. First thing is to sit for at least 10-15 minutes quietly somewhere, several times throughout your day. Close your eyes and just notice thoughts. Don’t engage with any thought, just notice them.

1. Notice the current thought that is ...

very time you have a thought make a mark on the sheet. If that thought is about the 'self' put a mark on the 'self' side, if it’s about something else, mark the 'other' side. If a thought about food occurs due to feeling hungry, mark that on the 'self' side. Any thought that refers back to a self ...

Hi Sev,

How are you doing?
Shall we move to a more concrete exercise?

Atma


Hello! Sorry for the delayed reply, things have been busy, but also I've been 'doing' exercises, especially centered on feeling into that fear around surrender and accepting thoughts for simply being what is happening ...

Hi Severian,

Keep putting your attention in the sensations instead of thoughts and then let me know how it goes.

Meanwhile, here is a videoclip on how to use the quote function:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCbZYSvnTpc&t=1s


Warmly,
Atmajnani

I used the quote function in that last reply ...

Hi Sev,
It is alright to feel fear, it's a protective mechanism, a contraction, but whom or what is it protecting?



Hmm the best I can perceive is that it's a kind of story that is protecting the story of a 'me', but as I was feeling into this, looking inward, there was a hint (?) that in the ...

Hi Sev,

It is alright to feel fear, it's a protective mechanism, a contraction, but whom or what is it protecting?

Before you paste the question in your reply, make sure you press the button 'Quote' above the white box and only then paste the question between the brackets. You can also press ...

Which feelings come up when you read 'There is no inherent separate 'me', there never was, and there never will be'?

Arrogance, rejection, but also the space created by pondering a paradox is there as well. Confusion.


Is there something you don't want to happen?

I don't want to be abandoned or ...

Hi Atmajnani,
Sev is fine. Thanks for participating in this!
I will write my answers in the next reply.

Be well
Sev

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to add to this but today as I was reading Angelo Dillullo's book, specifically the stages section, it really struck a chord when he described (paraphrasing) how freedom isn't possible with a 'self'. It rang something quite deep inside me and I felt that kind of soul ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
I'm not actually sure I understand it beyond the intellectual concept that the personality self I present to the outer world is a rickety house of cards, the cards being various thoughts and ...