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 these things happen and how they work.

I don't know how things happen. They just happen.
Thoughts claim ownership but when there is ...

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever?
I have looked for it many time and I couldn't find it. The sense of self is only a mental construct made of thought stuff. There is no separate entity "self" anywhere. It's quite clear that ...

Would you like the final questions?

Sure. I'm ready for the questions.

Sorry I didn't reply earlier but I needed to "process" a few things that have been happening lately.

So would you say you've seen through self?
Yes. I can clearly see there's no inherent self.
I can only find seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling physical sensations, tasting and thoughts popping ...

So who are you? That question is pretty funny :). Does it still feel like you're here working through all this stuff and noticing thought patterns

I don't know. Yes it is a funny question because I don't have an answer. There are still some usual patterns of course. I still respond to my name etc ...

Any doubts? Questions? Concerns? Are you still looking for something?
No. No more doubt. The doubts probably used to arise because I was expecting some fireworks that didn't happen.

Is there still suffering? What is suffering? What is truth? Do you believe the thoughts appearing

There hasn't ...

Are you there to experience the DE? Or is there just DE?

There is just DE

When you do the exercise and thoughts disappear completely, what's left?

When there are no thoughts, I don't feel emptiness. There is DE of what is. I don't know how to best describe it. It's nothing special, just the same without thoughts.

Does it feel like you're the one doing all that thinking?

Most times, I can see that thoughts just appear from nowhere, but sometimes, it really feels like I'm creating them, mainly when I have to focus on a task at work or if "I decide" to do something. As I'm writing these words I realise that ...

Let's make a useful (yet artificial) distinction moving forward.
There are 2 parts of your experience:
1) Direct Experience (DE, 5 senses)
2) Thought.
Anything that is not DE is thought.
Agreed.

"What's here that's not a thought?"

Oh dear, that was interesting. I've never really tried to look ...

Hi ty0,

Hope you're well.

Do you think that's what enlightenment looks like? No thoughts, pure senses, and bliss all the time?
No, not at all. I don't expect to have no thoughts anymore after awakening. I imagine I wouldn't identify with them and I wouldn't believe everything they say.

I ...

Hello ty0,

Hm. So what's the problem? Why are you here?

Well, I don't know anymore. I thought that seeing there is no self would change things a bit in the way I perceive the world.

Is there such a thing as knowing something in a non-intellectual way
The intellect can only revolve around ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
ME is a mental construct. It is made of thoughts about thoughts, built up through life experiences and about body sensations. I can see how my self is not real, no more real than if I think of the ...