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by Tessmus
Thu Sep 25, 2025 3:12 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Ok, I will try my best to not analyze or think and just report what I experience for each question, but I "think" :) am not always exactly clear of where the "border" between reporting direct experience and thought goes, because thinking is also part of the direct experience, and always very ...
by Tessmus
Thu Sep 25, 2025 6:12 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Ok, see if I can get hang of that quote function :)

right now, looking with no agenda, can you find an “I” that is the walker, the eater, or the receiver, apart from the story about it?
No, not apart from the story.


Find the do-er. Is there an “I” walking? Or is there just walking, moving ...
by Tessmus
Wed Sep 24, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

When going about my day, often I am not really that conscious, and then actions and decisions definitely just appear without a controller or doer. When focusing on the decisions in the present moment, some decisions seems more "consciously" made than others. So there seem to be different levels of ...
by Tessmus
Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:28 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

What is the perspective on this now?
Is there still someone here doing the doing?
Is freedom the illusion of choice or the seeing through the illusion of being the doer?


The perspective on this is that I feel free anyway, no matter what is "actually the case". I don't feel afraid of not being in ...
by Tessmus
Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:13 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

That everything is Ultimately Unknowable, doesn't feel anything, it feels normal, I think I have "known" or believed this for a quite long time, maybe even as long as I can remember. If there isn't some "deeper level" of seeing this that I have not yet seen?

The feeling "I am me" doesnt prove ...
by Tessmus
Tue Sep 23, 2025 9:01 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Yes, the "witness" behind the mechanism of witnessing cannot be accessed in witnessing and so it must be a conclusion really, based on habit: that for something to be seen there must be a seer and a seer can never see itself. If witness could be witnessed, then there must have been another "larger ...
by Tessmus
Mon Sep 22, 2025 2:02 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Looking, the witness is not a thing in itself, the witness is the witnessing itself.

Mental overlays arise, at first it feels a second layer, but perhaps it is actually more like flickering between pure sensation, and mental overlay, but very very quickly, or rather with very very subtle transition ...
by Tessmus
Mon Sep 22, 2025 6:49 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Putting my hand on a book, and closing eyes, at least after some time, there is only one thing, the sensation itself. Focusing on the sensation, in the sensation, so to say, there is only the sensation itself, no thing feeling another. But there is in parallel, always the mental overlay of "a hand ...
by Tessmus
Sun Sep 21, 2025 4:15 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

When the image disappears, there is just a very vidi idea of the object, there is no thingness in itself. No object can be "known" in itself, just an image, or a thought etc about it, I have had this notion before as well, but I can see it.

Like with the backside of the object, it just an idea, I ...
by Tessmus
Sun Sep 21, 2025 2:24 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Yes, I have done this exercise now during the days, not sure exactly what to report, but I can see that for example looking at a cup, there is only the image of the cup, or if holding it, there is only image + sensation, together labeled as cup in thought, beyond this, there is no "cup" as a ...
by Tessmus
Fri Sep 19, 2025 3:59 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Frustration is just here, as a vibrational sensation + many thoughts, like a strong "will" or "wanting."

No, there is nothing wrong with this moment except the idea that it should be different.

Describing what is directly here .... I really don't know how to report on it without expressing a ...
by Tessmus
Fri Sep 19, 2025 3:21 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

I don't know, what's here is here. Frustration is definitely here... expectations haven't dropped, and I guess there is nothing I can "do" to drop them, if they drop they drop by themselves, so nothing to do then.
by Tessmus
Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:24 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Right now, there is image, sounds, sensations and thoughts.

I didnt really understand that about seeing vs knowing, that there is "nothing to give up"?
by Tessmus
Fri Sep 19, 2025 9:42 am
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

What's actually here, when really observing, yes, thoughts arising just in the moment. Tilt or influences of what kind of thoughts to think next, is also thoughts, just arising when they arise. I can't pinpoint anything "outside" thought controlling thought. Just thoughts controlling thoughts, or ...
by Tessmus
Thu Sep 18, 2025 4:17 pm
Forum: THE GATE
Topic: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self
Replies: 96
Views: 2709

Re: Support in self inquiry to see through the illusion of self

Ok, doing the exercise. Thought arise by themselves, this is for sure, and I couldn't have done anything to make a different thought appear at that exact moment. I can't predict my next thought, unless the thought is something like this, now I am going to think the next thought that comes for ...

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