Did you choose to become aware of the urge?
Or did awareness of it just… appear?

The urge just appeared


What is this FEELING of me? Break it down... what are its components? How is it known?


It starts with a pleasant feeling of safety, comfort, then that subsides and there is space and ...

At what exact point does the “option to interfere” appear?

Only if I am aware of the urge to move and dont respond right away, then I have the option to interfere. Otherwise movement happens without conscious direction all the time

Right now, in immediate experience is there anything that is ...

Actually, everything I think and do and experience is just neurons processing input + experience (memory) and producing output. The decision not to raise the finger is an alternative output available to the brain it does not require a ME to do any of it, I just witness it passing through the mind or ...

Is the brain and neuronal processes ultimately knowable??

I can think about it....I can experience it....not the neurons, but their effects in my brain...an urge to do one thing or another
When I observed 'intention' I realised that it was just neurons behaving in habitual ways, it feels like ...

So, the intention arose in response to your instruction, first I lifted the index finger and no movement in the mind was perceivable, then I thought about which finger to use, I changed which finger and the mind was involved in some minimal way in that. I used several, there was no movement in the ...

Does the body require instruction to walk down the street, or cook dinner?

This body can drive the car without my conscious involvement 🙂

Seeing is happening
Sensations are happening
Thoughts are happening
Movement is happening

No, these things happen spontaneously and the mind catches up ...

Hi, I want to let you know that I am working on the tasks set but I am getting ready to travel to India for a month so I may not respond til March, I will have no wifi there.

I am really committed to our work together and very grateful for your help.

I will speak to you in March

Thank you for ...

Is it a failing in any way that ‘I’ can’t control focus? Can you find the one who tries?


I suppose it is a failure as I’m trying to do it, but I can’t find who is trying to do it, only thoughts about me, but ‘I’ in some sense am there, otherwise what is aware that any of this is happening? What is ...

At the end of the twenty minutes compare the two ways in which the experience was labeled and answer the following four questions:
1. Is one truer than the other, and If so, which one?
2. What is here without labels?
3. Do labels affect the experience or just describe it?
4. Did you notice any ...

Turn around and look at the mechanism of focusing, not the space itself.

Is there a “me” resisting thoughts? Or just thought pulling, and attention going?

Can attention be controlled?
Can you stop it from moving?
Can you choose what arises?


I have worked with this and I feel that its not a ...

focussing on the space is constant effort, attention gets dragged away to thoughts, when it notices sounds or breath it seems to be one with these but its hard to keep thoughts from dragging me away

Im sorry, i am trying to answer your questions...

Can you find where this “still there” is located?
no, I cannot, there is just the space in which thoughts arise maybe

What is actually here that is not a thought?
maybe nothing, there is focussing of attention to keep the space free of thought, and ...

So thoughts arise without my input, all constructs are thought, when there is no thought, there is awareness and familiarity, as if I am still there even though I am a concept

Hi yes please :) Give me a few days, things getting hectic for Xmas.

I did try this but came up with no answers...it was a while ago, I'll have another go...

ok sorry found your last post, its me that didn't respond....will you still continue with me please?