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Oh thank you Elad, joy arises in this bundle of habits today! Much gratitude to you and the three other guides who kindly looked over my responses, you all do amazing work. I look forward to hearing from Nerina at some point, and your recommendations on how I might take things further.

Even that ...

Thank you :)

Morning Elad

You might regret asking me to elaborate more on question 4! Go get a cuppa …

For question (4), can you say some more about what you experienced and how, when you read the passage you quoted. Like describe a bit where you were, what was noticed, a bit like if I could have seen it as a ...

Yes sure Elad, I will work on this more tomorrow and will get back to you.

I would be happy for you to share my answers with anyone you like, happy to receive further questions in the quest for more clarity.

Thank you!

Thank you Elad, and for giving me all the time I needed to respond to your check-point questions. I decided to get on with it and have answered to the best of my ability as honestly as I could, happy for you to question any blindspots or illusions! Here goes ... it's rather long.

1) Is there a ...

Thanks Elad. I don't think I need more time. I jotted down quickly what came up last night after your last question. It's very short!

So, if someone came to you right now and said: You have not seen that there is no self, this is not true seeing!

What happens? What reactions, thoughts, feelings ...

Hi Elad

I am amazed at your quick responses! Thank you. I'm exhausted, this has been such an intense internal process, such deep digging, I almost feel burned up! I'm not going to talk much sense tonight, I'm too tired, I'll respond to your great question tomorrow, likely sometime after mid-day.

I ...

The only thing that is really important to SEE here is that the processes are spontaneous without a separate self, without a doer or a chooser.

Is that clear to you?

Yes, when I stop thinking about it and just experience my experience, I see this. I like the term ‘the processes are spontaneous ...

Many thanks for your very helpful responses and questions Elad, it has taken me a little time to reflect. Here goes ...

Choosing happens. Discerning happens. Creative and analytical thought happens. Even training and skill development happens. We are not gonna try and unsee any of that. We are ...

Hi Elad

Thank you for encouraging me to post my own questions as I follow this inquiry. There are more below!

1) Do you need to know the answer for it to be clearly so?

Good question, no I don’t need to know the answer. I have spent much of my working life as a problem solver and I am rather ...

Looking only to direct experience, not relying on any theory, doctrine or intellectual reasoning, is there a separate self, a doer, a controller, a chooser?
No, there is no separate self, I cannot find one, pinpoint one. If a surgeon opened up my body from top to toe they wouldn’t find anything to ...

Thank you Elad, I will look at that link a bit later today so that I understand the practicalities of communicating with you.

For the purposes of this public forum please call me Julia.

That's a great question to start with. The sun is shining and I'm going to head out for a walk now, during which ...

Hi Elad

Thank you for offering to do this inquiry with me, I appreciate that. I can confirm I have read the information in the two links you sent me, perfectly fine with me.

The type of engagement I have with you that you outlined looks good and is possible. To the best of my ability I will stay ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
There is no fixed self, there never has been. I am a bundle of various habits which inform how I respond to my experience of the world. A self cannot exist as a separate entity, there is nothing ...