Reading some other posts I am understanding that I have an intellectual understanding of there being no self but no experiencial feeling for it. Can you help me experience it as opposed to the intellectual?

this afternoon i went up to sit quietly in a ring of trees. On the way I stood in front of an acacia tree that is in full bloom. I stood in front of it and closed my eyes. WHen I opened them I realised I didnt see an acacia tree. I saw form, light, color and energy. The acacia tree is a thought.

sounds good and will start again on the seeing. i appreciate the insight into there being no decision maker. every post you reply to you include so much, thanks!

"Close your eyes and locate 'self'. When you have located it, point with your finger to it. Open your eyes; you are pointing to 'self'. LOOK at what finger is pointing to. What do you SEE?"
When I point to self and open my eyes I can see my finger. However. Just following the directions and not ...

This has got me tied up in knots. So trying to make it simpler so I can not get bogged down in looping the same thinking over and over. Sorry if it is repetitive but like the Katie work sometimes I just don't get it until I do. I have to disagree with the idea with who feeds the body when it is ...

You say thoughts are real, we really have them, we experience them. So I wonder who it is that experiences them. If not self who or what is there to notice thought and to experience feeling?

I spent some hours last night listening to a dharma talk by Guy Armstrong ( from the site dharma seed) about how we get our idea of self from taking a thought and believing it. He used the example of his own fear. When he practiced meditation fear arose. So it became a belief that fear would arise ...

Ah yes, thanks Nona, I see that I am attaching self to physical body. How amazing to see that so clearly all of a sudden. Something just clicked when I read that. I have been worried that I would lose something if I gave up attachment to self. In this now I can see how attached I am. Make me smile ...

Who experiences body's sensations? I believe I do. Such a simple question and so hard to answer. If there is no self does that mean I am making up my physical body? I think my body exisists on this physical plane even when I am not present/sleeping/knocked out etc. When the energy in this body ...

Nona’s question - What is fear itself? - Sitting for a while with the fear is hard. My mind keeps jumping off into other subjects. I am so good at this evasion when I am inquiring. Mmm. Fear is an emotion that I feel in my body. If I allow it to flow through my body it disippates. My body feels fear ...

Last night I confronted the story of the watcher and what that was to me. Words for a wordless experience. Here goes.
After a week of silence practicing Vipassana meditation and alternating with QiGong my mind began to quieten , thoughts began to arise and I would notice them and then they would ...

Will you commit to 100% honesty and posting here at least once a day? (i know you are in a hurry, and will try to keep up with you!)
yes

Hi Nona, thanks for helping me. In the past I have done yoga and lots of inquiry into religions such as Buddism and such. Right now I am practising QiGong every day and using what I call the Katie Work to look into all those beliefs I am carrying around.
I experienced the "watcher" or the lack of ...