If they come and you can't help but focus on them, don't resist that. It's like you're thinking that following the thoughts is resisting the sensations so you try to resist the thoughts and focus on the sensations, but that's just the same thing in the other direction. When you have the time ...

If thoughts take over and you find yourself resisting them and the sensations they cause, can you be inviting towards the resistance?
Yes. I think I am trying to be with all of it - even the resistance. So far it seems that if a thought comes that I don't like it's because it creates an ...

Please don't treat this time as an effortful time
It hasn't felt like effortful time. My experience so far has been mostly relaxing with thoughts that come but not sticking much. If something does seem to "stick" a little more I will just go into the body to see if any sensation arises and then ...

Hi Tyler,

I did message yesterday but I wanted to add more today. I am participating in a 5 day online silent retreat that started this morning. My intention for the retreat is to use the time to - a) not engage in social media, b) only check my email twice/day but otherwise pretty much stay off ...

By itself, what is there?.... doorknob (when I say doorknob, I mean what the label doorknob refers to). But is there seeing of the doorknob? Is the doorknob being seen? Does the doorknob appear? IS the doorknob??
Hmm, I'm still unclear. Maybe it just appears? I can't actually verify with DE ...

No way to "feel into the emotions" because it's not a choice you make, they come and you have no choice but to feel them. But if it counts for anything, most people who go through this process go through this phase of terror and fear of going crazy, so I'm not alarmed that you're experiencing this ...

Hi again Tyler,

I am writing again this morning because I recognize I am feeling frustrated and my last reply was snippy and came from annoyance. A lot of emotions and sensations arose yesterday (and have been for about a year now I think). I did my best to not focus on the thoughts that arose but ...

You're still trying to use the information you have to come up with an answer or "find" something.
Indeed, that is why I am here. Why are we doing any sort of dialog with you pointing if there isn't something to see that I am currently not seeing or not noticing that I am already seeing it?

Stop ...

You sound convinced that you're the awareness experiencing everything, or at least that awareness exists. You say this is the case because you can feel this awareness inside witnessing. But if this awareness is felt, as in, within your experience, then what is aware of this awareness? If you feel ...

Hi Tyler,

Thanks again for your reply and additional questions. I received them last night and read through them but they were hurting my brain so I decided I should wait until the morning to try and decipher replies - LOL!

What is seen is direct experience, but what about the see-er? Do you see ...

Hi Tyler,

Thank you for your reply and your additional questions. So here I go...

How is it so that something seems to experience thoughts, emotions, etc.? What are you looking at to deduce that?Now, do you directly experience something that seems to experience thoughts, emotions, etc... or do ...

Hi Tyler,

Thank you for being my guide. My name is Michelle. I will answer your questions.

If it appears that you exist, what do you feel you are? I can't say I can feel "what" I am but something seems to experience thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and the senses (seeing, hearing...).

What ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
I seem to conceptually understand that there is not a 'self' but I have not had any experience to validate that. So I don't really know what that means. It appears that I exist, in this body but I ...