Thank you May.

You've been such a great companion especially when it was rocky at the beginning, I so looked forward to your clarity and calm replies.

Much love.

Osito

Thanks May for all of your help and kindness.

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

No and there never was. Only experiencing.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from ...

Thanks May.

If no idea of who you are could survive this moment… is anything lost?

No, emphatically no! That made me burst into tears. Very bittersweet. As you say, the body still feels.

Who are you now?

No-thing. Experiencing.

I think I'm done :)

Best wishes.
Osito

Thanks May,

That was - I can't put a word on it - but it stopped me in my tracks. I see the clinging now.

I can see how those values - the emotions and associated thoughts formed the 'self'.

This is very pertinent because I am living (due to husband) in a culture very different to my own and ...

Thanks May,

That feels really clear. I am noticing some beliefs are 'sticky' and that is interesting.

Yesterday was remembrance Sunday remembering the two world wars. My father and my grandfather were military and we were raised with very strong values - service, duty, patriotism. Yesterday I felt ...

Thank you May. Here are two examples of working with the exercise:

Last night I was reading and suddenly felt fear with a thought about what 'Osito' needs to do tomorrow.

I went to the body and I felt tension in stomach and pressure in mouth - tongue was pushing on top of mouth.

I asked what is ...

Hi May,

Thank you for this - I am busting with excitement now :)

What is actually being seen or heard?

Is it war, collapse, violence… or is it colour, sound, movement, right here?

What part of it is happening outside experience?

What is actually being seen is images and colours. What is heard ...

Thank you May!

No label is needed anymore.
No belief needs to be held in place.
No center has to be protected!

When I read this I felt my whole body sink into relaxation, like I arrived here finally.

Just keep noticing what unfolds, especially when discomfort shows up. That’s often where the ...

Hi May,

How did the illusion of “I” appear real, all this time?

In the body - a feeling in my head behind my eyes - feels like a centre/focal point of thinking. Quite a stressful contraction actually like pressure.
In language with the use of the words 'I' and 'me'. Emotion - pride or shame when ...

Hi May,

I loved reading that reply!

Is that feeling doing anything?

Is it choosing thoughts?
Is it guiding decisions?
Can it move a hand or start a sentence?

Or is it simply… present, and then a thought comes in and says “that’s me”?

That’s the glue, isn’t it?
A sensation + a label = “I”.
But ...

Hi May,

Thanks for your reply. Osito is fine.

The I in my direct experience is just a feeling. I have been taught to associate it with a body and answer to a name but honestly if I just look, all I seems to be is a feeling of presence. In terms of I make decisions - they happen and there are ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
That there is no separate ‘me’ making decisions and directing life. That life is happening in and of itself and there is one happening.

What are you looking for at LU?
Not to have an ...