Thank you Jeff and thank you to all the folks who made this website possible. So grateful for all of it. The honor has been "mine" ;)

Love,
D

Hi Jeff,

Happy Easter / Passover / Today back at you :)

I'm not usually big on completing customer satisfaction surveys 🤣 but seeing as how you asked so nicely ;)

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

It's obvious there is no ...

Hi Jeff,

Please read all through page 5 of our dialog, looking closely at our conversation, and the various places it resonates.

What is left?

Knowing, seeing I AM.

What is here?

Someone seeming to struggle at something. But... there's no one to struggle so... and the struggle is just a ...

Hi Jeff,

I just want to make sure the page 5 I'm looking at is the same page 5 you're talking about... because I may have reversed the default order of posts so the newest ones show on top... but I'm not sure. So, the question is: is this post I'm doing right now showing for you on page 1 or on ...

Hi Jeff,

:)

I don't know what your path is.

But you are clearly on it.

Finally.

You are, aren't you?

Yes, I am. I'm convinced. Certain.

And, yes, there is fear. It's not mine, but it's there. Pretty hard to miss... like a fire alarm ;)

Probably there are questions about the fear, but they ...

Jeff,

Because we all agree on the answers to all the semi-rhetorical blue questions except the last, I am breaking protocol and skipping to the good part.

What you get to do now is just to KNOW yourself (as nothing) and to watch as everything else comes and goes, including BELIEFS (thoughts), and ...

Hi Jeff,

Is there anything there that remotely resembles a "self" in the terms you may have once thought you were?

No. There is nothing like that at all

If there's nothing there that is comprised of any of the "substances" of direct experience, only "emptiness, but not" (ie, the fullness of ...

Hi Jeff,

Now. Just be there. What's it like?

Please don't tell some conceptual story.

You go sit in the woods.

No cars, people, work...

What's it like?

It's simple and uncomplicated by anything. Everything just IS. It's featureless and empty, but not.

D

I will do exactly that :) and I will report back only to what is in blue :)

Then, notice “you” are aware of all this stuff: the objects and the senses themselves.

So, by definition, you can say, “I am aware” because since “you” are aware of x, y, & z, it also follows that “you” are aware, period. Right?

Right

Then, take the “step” back, and say just

“I am aware” to ...

Hi Jeff,

It's been a long day an I'm too wiped out tonight to respond any more than to say thank you for these 2 beautiful posts. I will continue to sit with this and will respond tomorrow.

D

Hi Jeff,

This will likely help:

Lost Keys

Thank you, that settled things down ;)


So, look again.

Please just answer the questions I asked, in the form I asked it, and describe what you see.

Are you aware?

If the answer is “yes”, then please answer the following question:

What is it to ...

Hi Jeff,

I'm responding just to let you know I am still here and I haven't thrown in the towel ;)

So please just answer the question I asked, in the form I asked it, and describe what you see.

Are you aware?

If the answer is “yes”, then please answer the following question:

What is it to ...

Hiya Jeff,

Here is what's happening today:

I ask the question "Am I aware?" and the answer is "Yes"

I ask, "How do I know that?"

The answer is, "It's obvious"

Then the question / direction comes:
What is that obviousness?
Notice that obviousness
Is that obviousness always here?
What makes it ...

Hi Jeff,

Okie dokie. Please answer the following questions:

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

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