Would believing your socks are green or blue or yellow change the fact that they are red, if they are?
No, if they were fundamentally red in some absolute way, believing would not change them. It might change your perception, but i'm speaking intellectually here.



If there is a self, tell me ...

Thank you again,
you'd mentioned wanted to figure out how to get to less is more, one thought is maybe you notice trends rather than individual instances of thought identification, that'll punch harder and in fewer words / questions? also drills that you already know or can come up with can ...

I have no idea what “On the self-doubting lens” means.
I think I meant that it was mostly my habitual self doubt. in that light, probably wasn’t needed, it was much closer to Yes than anything else.


Lets try to find where this uncertainly is prevalent and repeats and dig into it. Tell me about ...

Many good questions! Too many in fact 😂 I'll get back to you as soon as I can but probably not by tonight
Jack

In hindsight from the call, I think a lot of what I was reacting to so negatively in these writing exchanges was some vague idea of who I thought you were and a vague idea of what you thought of me, without actually knowing anything about what you are like In real life.

Like you do go on animated ...

Hellooo,

Please review your straight up "Y/N" answers and see if there’s anything really different about any of them or the other examples that makes “Probably” relevant here, either with or without your question about language.
On the self-doubting lens, yes, no need for probably. it was a Yes ...

Also interested in what happens when you hold "mu".
Bunch of different things. The way I’ve been doing it is --in breath “what is mu” and outbreath “muuuuu” ---and just kinda ignoring the dog/buddha nature / “emptiness” parts of the koan since I haven’t been able to figure that out.

Holding onto ...

Hey Jeff, I'll update if things change, but I'm probably going to have to respond to this tomorrow, I won't have a minute to really write anything after right now until tomorrow pretty much, hope that's ok. I'll stay with mu or something in the meantime lol

LU

Hi Jeff, thanks for the response.

First, thanks for the starry night vacation story. I got a good feeling from the idea that everything in my experience has what is essentially my whole universe to play with. It’s not like i’m a box that has to stuff shit down and keep it locked tight. I got a ...

lease let me know what you get from this explanation.
Ok. my take from this was that whatever comes up for me, is just essentially 1. what’s there and 2 just scenery, just like a cat purring. I don’t need to push parts of me down or bring them especially into the foreground. Really, just don’t ...

Hi Jeff, let's call soon. I'll text you on whatsapp tomorrow, gotta get it set up and it's 1 am my time now.

OK, what do you think I meant by “don’t suppress anything?”
I think you meant 2 things: don't hide anything that I think is important just because I think you want it different, but ALSO ...

I'll reply to the rest of your message if you still want me to but I really want comment on this from the smelling activity

Smelling
932 smelled some sweet smell (content)

933- smelling took place (context), indiscernible smell (content)

934- smelling happening, context, no clear smell content ...

Hey Jeff,
Thanks for the reply.
Got it on the slow down, and got it on the don't suppress anything.

You may tell me if you like.
I actually don't really know what I meant by that anymore, really it was just word spill. I'm not cutting on any direct observation importantly.

"well. No master Yoda ...

Ok Jeff, thank you again no rush.

I think I found the bright pearl one: this is what ai said.

Master Gensa addressed the assembly and said:
"The entire universe in all ten directions is one bright pearl."
A monk stepped forward and asked:
"The entire universe in all ten directions is one bright ...

Random, but I really like koans, so if you can think of any that might get me, please feel free.

Isn't this all a lot of content to process? How do you see it working?
I still think it makes sense and works together, I bring up stuff from LU and you in his meetings and talk about it, and ...