Hi,
Thanks, yes I've just joined it thanks. Are you on it as well? If so what's your name there? You can pm it to me if you want. In fact I would like to know more about your fall and how it occurred. Anything about you...a pic if possible..I feel so grateful to you Neeeel and would really ...

1) There is as much a self as there is a story or a character on a dream. If self is an autonomous individual who has independent qualities which distinguishes himself from the rest of the environment and other selves, then this is the illusion. If the grammatical word I,me,myself, my own, our etc ...

Yes, sure. Will do. Yes, you can give me the FB group

And once again....thanks for the Help. Bless you and lots of love

Was breaking my head over how the hell should I look, and misunderstood it for contemplating it through thought and contemplation...then I read a thread in the Gateless Gatecrashers and Elena was explaining to someone to look directly and not to analyse. She mentioned Spiderman and how imagining him ...

Action, decisions are happening and part of the story says that 'I' did them, but of course it's quite clear that any of this is a reflection in the soap bubble.
Yes, of course there is an 'I' as part of the story only not in any actual real sense at all. This 'I' will probably continue just like ...

You're right! It's all content. The experiencer is just part of the story. There is only thoughts, sensations (through the 5 senses), emotions (which are a mixture of physical sensations and thoughts). The rest is only a story which is like a picture in thoughts like a reflection(image, words) is in ...

What I mean by the sense of witness is the baseline of all experience. Something is there that witnesses or experiences it all isn't there? Whatever the content is is irrelevant, but something is experiencing everything or experience experiencing itself....

Hi Neeeel, I'm back from the retreat...there was a lot of frustration there as I was constantly trying to find this elusive 'I'? Though there were relentless thoughts around it giving an answer of all sorts...I kept noticing them and trying to see if I was doing them.....then I realised that even ...

Thanks,

Also lately I've been suffering from insomnia for some time now (before I discovered LU). Lately it's getting worse as I'm having rampant thoughts. I feel the thoughts are getting more in intensity and it's getting torturous. I hope this enquiry is not making it so, as it needs to slow down ...

I'm going for an insight mediation retreat tomo for 3 days. They will basically be advising breath and body mindfulness techniques.
Any tips on how to integrate that with what I'm doing now?

Wow! Thank you master.

Happy Guru Purnima (today is the full moon day where in India the master ir revered and honoured by the student. In this case of course there is no Master or Student except as stories appearing in the mind, but I still need to show my respect for the one Guru that helps ...

Yes, I agree. There is no harmonious or disharmonious sound until the judgement pops up. Having looked I feel that sensations occur before the thought about it although this process is too fast for me to discern that yet.

What I meant when I said it doesn't change anything is that it doesn't ease ...

at is the difference between a disharmonious sound, and a pleasant one?

No difference is seen except that when there is a pleasant sound there is a pleasant sensation ion the body accompanying it and when there is an unpleasant sound there is a corresponding negative sensations. Also there are ...

Yes, I'm sorry if I sounded confused but I think I really am now....I just don't understand how to really look anymore. The thoughts are that overwhelming and distracting. So I don't know what or where to look regarding ......

Neeeel wrote: "But you can always go back and check that its true, or ...

this could be part of the problem of why its so hard for you. You want out

Don't you think that is natural after suffering for so long. I mean isn't it the most normal thing to move away from pain inspite of all the teachings that ask you to befriend it, put out the welcome matt, embrace it etc ...