... and sending you a PM.

I have received no pm...?!
No hurry... - just wondered ;-)
Love, Leif

Hi Elizabeth

Thank you so much for your guidance this far!
You are a very kind "midwife"... - and the baby was allready there and has always been there :-)

I feel spontaniously free in a new way. I don't label "myself" anymore... - at least not as much as before.
Now I have to be steady! Not in ...

Does it feel as if a shift has happened?


Absolutely so! And I am very grateful :-)


1) Is there a you, at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?


There is an Indispensable need to use words like I, me, you etc. in everyday communication.
But this is only because of a grammatical ...

Tell me how a belief is possible.
How is it different from knowing?


This was not an easy one... - but I did reach an answer:

A belief is not in itself a fact. It is a thought ABOUT something that might be a fact or might not be a fact.
A belief is a thought. A belief is theory...

If I KNOW ...

Is there really someone things happen to, or is the happening all part of one thing, no separation? Even that which apparently separates, the story of a separate I, is that a seamless part of the happening?


Things do not happen to ME, they happen to the WHOLE. Everything, every happening, every ...

Hi Elizabeth,


So if you say:
"a person talks to himself/herself in silence? I see no difference between socalled thoughts and talking. Yes, one is silent, the other is loud..."
Who is this person that is talking to himself? What are these apparently two selves? I


At first sight there seem to ...

Hi, Elizabeth


Thoughts are real things.


Are they not rather happenings than things? Well... - not important in the context.


Do thoughts ABOUT a character mean that it is real?


Absolutely not. A thought about a unicorn does not make it real. Neither does a thought about "me" make a ...

Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you so much for being with me again :-)


Given the work you have already done here, can you find a self in this that is real?


No, it was precisely this that was the problem. I took this role on me: ”I am a tibetan buddhist!!!” I was in fact labelling what was going on, and ...

If something further develops on it's own, come back and play.


Two and half month have passed... - and I am back :-)

Elizabeth, please tell me honestly if you have the time and/or the courage to continue the journey together with me. If you haven't got the time right now, tell me and we might ...

Thank you so much for your understanding answer :-)
I think that I'll come back... - but not right now, something has to ripen or wither away; time will show which...

Love, Leif

Hi Elizabeth,

A man cannot ride two horses at the same time.

I try to do BOTH this enquiry AND my buddhist practice at one and the same time.
It seems that it is not possible for me...

I get stressed, divided and broken up.

If I have to choose I will choose the buddhist practice, because I know ...

Hi, Elizabeth
I need more time to ponder this...
See you :-)

Hallo again, Elizabeth


If this is what you are seeing, experiencing, what is there to search for?
You are aware that there is no personal self. No personal will. All personal is thought content, not reality.
You are aware of form/formless.
Is there something missing from this experience that ...

Hi, Elizabeth


Yes, you can have a sense of a self. Like I have a sense of balance, a web of sensors (priopreceptors) that culmanate in a 'position'. The mind takes a cumulative, or summative position on a wealth of incoming sense information and associated experience.
It is interesting :-) And ...

Hi, Elizabeth


Can the SENSE of self be in awareness, without a self to be found?

Is awareness a thing? or just another label for the whole spectrum of impermanent phenomena, including sense impressions?

So, to be clear, we are going beyond a self to the essential emptiness.


If there is no ...