Dear Nettie,

Thank you for everything that you have done to facilitate. i not only wish to express my deep gratitude and appreciation, but also for everything that you post elsewhere.

I will look at the topic at guiding, although it may need wait until later in the summer as I have a rather ...

1) Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
The ‘me’ is nothing more than a language reference that can be used. There have been thoughts about a ‘me’ and the thoughts about the concept can still arise. Now they are just thoughts – just like thoughts about a ...

Grading finals and term papers for 130 students is going slow. I will have a response here Thursday or Friday. Meanwhile, the unfolding is amazing.

Hi Nettie, Thank you for the questions. I am going to sit and look deeply at these questions for a day and respond tomorrow evening.

Harvey

You may send the questions !!! (Maybe the questions and the answers are the same :)

On a conventional level, this is the end of the semester and I have about 150 students at my college with term papers and finals to give starting tomorrow. Then the task of calculating final grades begins.

But within all of that outward activity, there has been an ongoing looking at everything ...

Hi Nettie,

So I have taken a couple of chairs, a table, a wall and I have been just noticing what shows up in direct experience with my senses. (I remembered that I use to do this many years as an informal meditation). Anyway, as I have been doing this and noticing the observations, it is clearer ...

Hi Nettie,

I have not been on here or facebook during the last few days as i have been away. Even during the weekend, I was questioning almost relentlessly no matter what I was doing. I have read all of your messages very carefully.

In one of the messages from Friday, you had mentioned about ...

Today (Friday) -- the looking continues at the questions of better or worse and cause and effect.

Hi Nettie,

Thank you so much for your responses. I deeply appreciate them.

This morning something unexpectedly happened. I was watching a video by Rupert Spria called "Subtle Origins of Self." In the video, he is talking about concepts like a "pink flower" and the difference between the ...

One other question. I have avoided reading the other threads on LU so as to avoid comparisons. But would that be helpful?

So I continue the looking and I do not find a me or a self nor do I think that I consciously believe that there is a self. Yet, there is not the direct experience of no self. I realize that I need to keep looking at where there is some type of holding on to any residual belief.

In my next class ...

Hi Nettie,

I keep up the looking. Today in between teaching classes, the question and looking continues. I start to wonder that if I know that there is no self, then am I just conceptualizing that fact, or taking on the no-self as just another belief? Maybe I am expecting, at some level, something ...

I am letting it rip :). And it continues today....as I notice it. It is just there.

This morning, I have spent the last 2 hours just working on the looking at any assumption of self.

There is this inner turbulence going on. It is like I am looking for something that I already know is not going to be found. It like when I am looking for my keys on the table and I already know it's ...