1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

No, there’s no entity or structure that’s outside of life experiencing life. The things that show up labelled as ‘me’ or ‘mine’ (opinions, emotions, preferences) are made up of thoughts ...

Hi Becca!
Thank you for your last response, I sat with it for a while, and I am getting a sense for how things flow on without the I story.

Since last writing I've been watching things shift, applying some of the questions you've asked to day-to-day life, and it's going really well. I've also been ...

Thank you, Becca!
Today has been fun, sitting with this realization and seeing things differently.
Can I ask, with the awareness that it's all whole and complete just the way it is, what lead to you be a guide to help people wake up?

Ahh ☺️☺️☺️

Wow, my mind really reached a breaking point with this one.

No, there’s nothing that can come back to awareness because awareness stays the same regardless of what thoughts and feelings are happening in it.

But it sure feels like there is a ‘me’ that remembers it feels better to rest in awareness ...

So this contraction that is being noticed in the spine, the chest, the stomach. Without interpretation, without stories or making meaning about it, what is present? Sit with it for a while. Listen to it. Follow if it moves around the body. Staying with sensation only. No ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’. Is ...

I’ve been working at this but I really want to practice it when the emotions are in full effect which is hard for me to generate without a real life situation popping up - so I’ll keep looking out for opportunities where there are strong emotions today.

My chest and stomach muscles contract and my spine curls inwards - like my body is trying to get smaller and avoid eye contact. Sometimes I find myself holding my breath.

I think it’s a sequence of thoughts that have a strong emotional charge - a fear of rejection/abandonement woven into them.

I don’t know if there is shame without a story because the story comes first. The “should” story.

Then the thoughts/feelings/actions happen that don’t align with the ...

Thank you for that breakdown of beliefs! I’m going to keep watching out for those thought forms. I hadn’t really thought about emotions as a thought form before.

Here are my notes from the ‘there is no separate self, there never was, there never will be’ exercise:

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I see my reflection ...

Who or what is spending less time believing? Is there actually a “you” managing the process of belief? Or is belief just another thought arising on its own, like the weather changing?

Ah yes! Another thought. A thought that feels familiar. A thought accompanied by another barely perceptible ...

1. What will be different when you realize there's no separate self?

Even though there is no “me” that awakens, I do expect that the illusory idea of “me” that exists will somehow change. I mean the types of thoughts that happen will change. Like an algorithm updating itself. So I do think the ...

Hi Becca!
Thanks so much for doing this.
I’ve read through the links and I don’t have any questions - I’m ready and willing to look interrogate my beliefs and get to what’s true.

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
I understand - theoretically - that what I think of as ‘me’ is a collection of habitual thoughts that are running on automatic. I’ve had some experiences of watching with without identifying with ...