Where is the sensation of I? Does this sensation know anything?
It's sometime in the chest, sometime on the forehead, sometime just in the mind. It doesn't know anything.

Where is the pressure? Are they in the same location?
The pressure is in the forehead.

How is this done? What is focused ...

Yes. A thought saying “I” is real as a sound/mental image.
But is there an actual entity corresponding to it?
There is no real entity to be found

So what is it in direct experience?
If it’s not sensation,
not sound,
not image,
then what category does it belong to?
I would say it's just a ...

Is a 'background belief/mental sensation' REAL or FANTASY?
It's something of the mind, maybe it's a fantasy to believe in it, but they're real as thoughts


Yes, the THOUGHT wouldn't be possible without the I but when walking is just happening, directly, is there I?
Most of the time there is ...

What is this? Can you define?
I fear I can't describe it clearly.

I would say today that it's like a fog made from the sense of I and thoughts, and it creates like a background belief/mental sensation of an observer.

Would they be sneaky if there wasn’t an I that was explicit or implied?
Well ...

When the observer is made of feelings, do you mean sensations or emotions?
I mean a mental sensation

What makes a thought sneaky?
It can be subtle and in the background. Or just being a vague idea in the mind, such as "I'm walking", "I'm seeing", these "thoughts" are not clearly made of words ...

So that observer, where is it?
What’s it made of?
What exactly is “doing” the observing?

it's made of feelings/thoughts, sometime subtle and sneaky, not even thoughts with words but just some background mental activity. I realized that more and more this last few days by being attentive.

They ...

The thoughts don’t need to stop, just not followed.
I think I understand that. By not followed, you mean "not believed in"? As in, seeing them a nothing more than thoughts? That's what the labeling exercise helps me a lot to, but still, most of the time they are kinda automatically believed in ...

What is the difference in direct experience between when it is here and not? Or with more or less ‘grip’?


I should have said, "the sense of I is still mostly here", it didn't go away, it feels weakened.
I still do the labeling thing, mainly with thoughts.

And even "the sense of I is still ...

So, what is day to day living like now, with this foundation?

the same. the sense of I is still here most of the time, maybe with less grip but still here.

Once the thoughts of I that has been masquerading as a sense of I are set aside, is this sense of I alive/found in any physical way, as an actual sensation or mixture of senses?

No it can't be found, there is just seeing, hearing etc...

What is actually here? Now.
I don't know how to answer that :(
I'd say that what is actually there are things without their label on it. but ultimately there is the labels too.

So strip the labels and come back to this exercise today:

Sit quietly and relax, take your time just looking at what ...

Is it ever not in the mind?
sometime the mind put it somewhere in the body, but ultimately yes it's still in the mind.

intention, hope… these are thoughts

What is here that is not a thought?

What is actually here? Now.

I don't know how to answer that :(
I'd say that what is actually there ...

Yes, you do see a visual field of colors, textures, gradients. That is real.

The concept of “ceiling” on the other hand as in something above you, covering a room, distant, up there etc, all of that requires layers of thought. The spatial placement, the distance, and its relationship to “you” is ...

Great, what is it actually made of?

Physically is it still centered in the chest? Or floating around? Climb all the way inside it and narrate from it…

It's made of many things, I maybe I should rather say, it appears with many things, for example:
it comes with intentions: "let's focus on the me ...

There is no “ceiling” in experience.
well, with eyes open I do see it, even if I get rid of the label "ceiling", there is this white surface that is seen, so I don't understand your statement :(

I notice the lack of reference to ‘my’ body. Is there any evidence that what’s felt is even a “body ...