Hello Ashton,

So what do you think? Do you see anything that sticks out to you that I should consider? Maybe some hindrance that I might not be aware of that maybe I should be? I would love to hear any of your thoughts on this, even if I ultimately don't agree with something you share with me, I ...

Hello Ashton,

OK this might take a while :-)

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

As far as I, or my minds eye can see, there is no separate entity, at all. I have looked. I have gone through my senses ie when I look at ...

Hello Ash,

I hope you are well today, By the way I really do appreciate you working with me on this. :-)



Now this one is interesting. I said

I think that the closest that I can get to the real me is Awareness.

You responded in this way

I'm gonna sound like a dick...
But what is this, here ...

What about this?

Did you have to say "Hey, experience! Make it so understanding slips away and identification happens!"

Or did even that too...
Just arise on its own?
Without asking to arise...
Just simply...
Arose?

Yes it did just arise :-) It seems, from my experience, that the mind (brain ...

Did you tell it to make it happen en masse?

No I did not have to tell it to happen

You didn't have to say "Hey, experience! Make it so it all arises en masse as 1 sort of thought!"
Did you?
Or did it just happen that way, without ever asking your permission to unfold en masse that way ...

It all happened in masse like you said. It was really just one thought. Maybe I am not understanding the question. I am sorry if I am :-) um.. I am thinking that you are getting at the fact that as I thought that, there was no thinker, no me directing that thought. I had a concussion 9 years ago. I ...

yeah :-) I get it. No that was not the experience. Those thoughts just came and went just like every other thought that I have. There was no Director of Operations at the helm. It still feels strange for me to say it but, no. There is no director.

LU is focused guiding for seeing there is no real, inherent 'self' - what do you understand by this? I understand this to be that there is no me separate from everything and everyone one that I see or comprehend. What am I? Who I am? I can not claim to understand the answer to that question.

What ...