Some of the folks who were sitting in the comfy chairs at Starbucks left, and I was able to claim one. So, five more minutes of ButtChair, attending to the lack of separation between butt and chair . . .

Mainly what I noticed in that vicinity was the sensations of pressure in a somewhat amorphous ...

I'm glad to hear that you think Angelo's approach can fit with what we're doing at LU. That's how it seemed to me. And he's my recent favorite YouTube teacher.

Thank you for all the resources. I'd run across Pernille and Todd Damore's videos and looked at a few, mainly on the 1st fetter, but I ...

I tried ButtChair one more time yesterday, during the meditation time that my spouse and I usually have together late at night. My mind was rather busy, but I kept coming back to mainly just feeling the sensations of my butt on the couch and not worrying too much this time around about the "dividing ...

The sense of vision IS direct experience.

Yes, of course, but for ButtChair, vision is pretty much irrelevant, yes? I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some odd and interesting aspect of this exercise. (Incidentally, in case this is helpful for making sense of how I think and communicate ...

I got a notification ten minutes ago but don't see a new post. Is the site glitching again?

I just went back to the ButtChair directions to try again and am pasting them here so that I'll have them handy:

Please LOOK for any place where your butt ends & the chair begins.

Is there any clear dividing line between them? Or only the Sensation with no clear division?

And I noticed that in ...

Oh, oops. Take two, including quote:

Just LOOK.

At what?

At what?

Although I'm a little reluctant to post again before you've responded to my previous post (thank you again for all the time and energy you put into LU as a volunteer!), it feels artificial to wait, so, returning to something you said on Wednesday:

It is not difficult. It is not mysterious. In ...

[I think we lost four posts in our thread when the LU site went down. I had talked about self-inquiry, and you said LU doesn’t guide that practice. I said that was fine and asked what I should be doing at this point, and you said ButtChair and maybe mentioned the recorded pointers you’d sent ...

I've started listening to the first 5 or 10 minutes of each pointer to see which ones might particularly grab me.

So far, I especially like "Perceiving Receiving," from which I'm taking self-inquiry pointers.

These notes are mostly for my own sake, so that I’ll remember these details:
- Ask ...

Here are some recorded pointers to try, too.Be sure to listen to the Introduction.

Thanks! I'm listening to the introduction, and these pointers sound right on target for where I am.

Who is this?

How does it FEEL to see to see this?

Mainly frustrating, I guess, since it seems like mainly an idea, not any sort of visceral, transformative insight into reality.

1) How many things do you find? Are there two things (hand and desk) or is there one thing – AE of sensation.
I find “one” thing: the sensations of touch.
(I put “one” in scare quotes because I experience multiple slightly varying sensations of pressure, texture, and temperature from various ...

Thank you for your response.

Continuing with ButtChair (that's what I'm supposed to be doing, right?) . . .

I wrote out lots of observations, musings, and confusions last night and this morning, but I’ll just share the following with you, since I’d be grateful for your feedback on it:

I want ...