ps: I neglected to address your questions from April 23rd. Interestingly, they feel more significant now than they did when you first presented them. Perhaps the wait was necessary :) I will look at them this week.

Hello Becca,

It's been a very busy work week. Long days and late nights. That said, it's fertile ground for observing likes and dislikes, desires and aversions, good and bad, and the labeling of moments as such. The scenario provided ample opportunity for stress, anger, frustration, and self-pity ...

Hello Becca,

Just a quick reply to let you know work has been unusually time-consuming, and there's some research happening on this end to look further into how to describe sensations without using labels. Your request has thrown me for a bit of a loop :-)
All words are labels, are they not? I ...

Hello Becca,

This is a profound exercise. Some are readily experienced, some rely on memory, and some are difficult to describe in purely sensory terms. Another pass and a deeper observing may need to happen, beyond this initial pass.

pleasing sensation of possessing”
A secure stillness in the ...

Hello Becca,

Who would maintain :)

Haha. Indeed. Who? :)
This is a beautiful question.
Remnants of "I" are exposed.

There is desire for achievement, progress, advancement, growth.
And there is reliance on arriving at milestones, like reaching higher rungs on a ladder, to validate the "I ...

Hello Becca,

Thank you for the reply to my post.

(Yes, we can stick with Somerton for our conversations).

How have things been in the time since you answered these initial questions? Besides the seeking energy slipping away, have there been any other changes you have noticed?

There has been ...

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this?
That our concept of “I” is a linguistic shorthand for all we experience of being alive. It’s a conceptual container for all we see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and feel. The self is a thought, a ...