If there was only a Yes or No answer required, what would you have answered?
Yes or No?

No

Without the thought "I" or "me", in your direct experience, do any of the areas of sensation point to anything other than
simply sensations? Yes or No?

No

In your direct experience, what do you find ...

Does this sense of self have a specific location? Yes/No

Yes. Behind the eyes and around the skull.

If Yes, is it permanently fixed, or does it come and go?

It's mostly fixed.

And if it comes and goes, where does it go to?

It can sort of contract down to behind the eyes. Or expand out to ...

Is this not just another thought?
Where is this "I" that could have turned thoughts in a certain direction to be found?

Yes. But it is more persistent and sticky.

Did the thought arise exactly as expected?

Sometimes yes. Sometimes not.

Is there an actual difference in these thoughts or is ...

there is also felt sensation arising or taste and tactile sensations accompanying the visual image, and so the visual image becomes multi-sensory which adds to the 'realness'.

This is very interesting. I knew that there were physical sensations that came with intense feelings like anxiety or ...

Now look at it, what you see in direct experience?

A black shape of a water bottle with a change in shape where the lid is.

Can it be known what the back side looks like?
If so, what tells what it looks like?
Can it be known that there is a back at all? That the object is 3D?
Can this be known ...

In your direct experience, if you let go of the label "fear" can you allow yourself to fully BE with the sensations without diverting into thought?

This is hard for me to say, as the fear sensation comes without warning and I cannot reliably bring it up or make it stay long enough for me to ...

In direct experience, without thoughts, is there an in here or an out there that can be found separate from the sound field? Yes / No?

No

Look again, you mention feeling based which is body sensation. Without thought or labels, does a sensation point to anything at all?

No

Where does it ...

Hello. I was ill for a few days so I'm catching up now.

Where does it feel that the sound is?

Out there.

Where does it feel that "I" am?

In the head somewhere.

Can any boundary that can be found anywhere between what seems to be hearing and what is heard, or is there only 'what is heard ...

Can you find anything to name or identify that is truly yourself, that is constant and invariable that stands apart from all other appearances?

Not in DE. Like the apple example, the assumption of a separate self arises together with and in the experience.

Please share only your immediate ...

Hi. I'm sorry for the delay. I'll answer the questions first and then add some difficulties that came up on which I'd like your advice.

Please confirm that you are clear regarding these two "modes" of experiencing, as this will be very important going forward, and can be a major sticking point ...

So, when the view on the right is seen, do you have the ‘choice’ to see or not to see? Y/N

I’m not asking can you ‘choose’ to see something else like another view or ‘blank space’ if you close your eyes.
The question is:

Can you turn seeing off? Y/N
Can you NOT see what is seen? Y/N

Same thing ...

Please report back with what body sensations (without interpreting the sensations i.e.naming emotions) you experienced when the lie was exposed. Bodies can feel hot or cold, heavy or light, contraction or expansion, etc.

I took some time with this and the recalling thing doesn't seem to be ...

Ok. I've done the exercise and I'll answer honestly.

1. Does one feel intuitively 'truer', more spacious, than the other, and If so, which one?

The descriptions with the "I am" feel truer. The ones with the bare descriptions felt incomplete somehow, like describing things in third person, like a ...

Please post several of your own observations in lists exactly like the one above.

Returning from work on the back of a bike.

Seeing the traffic and the people; simply = colours
Hearing the honking and general noise; simply = sound
Tasting the mint in my mouth; simply = taste
Smelling the exhaust ...

Hello. You can call me vistascan,

I've read the disclaimers etc and I'm mostly fine with them.

I'm in India, so my time zone is IST.


1. What do you think will be different when you realize there’s no separate self?

There will be less wastage of energy in catering to the needs and whims of ...