Nicely done Clark.I'll see if any other guides have anymore questions and get back to you soon.

Cheers
Andrew

Excellent work Clark.Now I need you to answer these 5 questions for me.Take your time and elaborate as much as you want.

1) Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?



2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works ...

I get it now. There is no me. It's that simple. I don't need to be any specific way or uphold any expectations of myself. I don't need to be consistent with anything that I thought I was in the past. There is nothing to be consistent with. There is only what is right now. No quality of self that is ...

I'm feeling much better thanks mate.

I have stopped reading and listening to everything else since we started. I really want to give this my best focus. I even stopped short of finishing Gateless Gatecrashers. Is it ok to read that?

By all means keep reading Gatecrashers.I just don't know ...

[quote="Calyx"]I looked for who or what influences decisions. Actually, I waited... Waited for a decision to happen so I could witness its origin and influences. I had to wait a long time. I started upon reading your reply this morning. Its now 5:30 pm and I just noticed "making" the first decision ...

Sorry Clark,
it's been a long day and I'm exhausted.I'll post more tomorrow.For now though I want you to view how you are living in a dualistic way.As seperate.Then I want you to look at how Clark fits into his slot in life seamlessly.There's no stops and stutters just flowing along.Next see how ...

Any suggestions?

Release the tiller and flow along with life instead of an illusory "YOU" fighting it.Release your false judgements and opinions.See the truth in your life and stop living other peoples illusory conditioning.Dump your fear and enter real life.It's just one honest look away

Andrew

That I and others employ a socio-culturaly programmed mental filter for defining ourselves and the world, and that all of our experience is tainted with those definitions is not really shocking to me. I've travelled enough to know that people raised in different cultures think radically different ...

Let me elaborate on that last post. I really do understand that I am nothing more than a label for the gestalt of perceptual filters feeding memory and the artificially self consistent conclusions that have been drawn from their analysis. I have always been a natural atheist so the prospect that I ...

Yes, I already understand that it's all social conditioning: eating, dress, speech, morals, attraction, everything. I have understood that for a long time. I wanted to go deeper than that.

Ok,you have an intellectual understanding of it but do you see it in reality.If you truely see it then it ...

[quote="Calyx"]I was eating lunch today at my favorite Indian joint. typically I eat while looking at Facebook or reading stuff on Kindle.

This is probaly one of the worst things to take you away from real living while trying to get liberated.It's distracting you.

Today I just ate. I noticed ...

[quote="Calyx"]I don't have a lot of disagreements or arguments. And I almost never get angry. I am generally open to evaluate other people's view point without taking anything personally. I can count the exceptions on one hand and still have fingers down.

I watched the patterns of people going ...

You asked how do I see "me" and how do I see reality.

How can I see myself? How can water wet itself? How can a knife cut itself? How can a mirror ball reflect itself? I can't say that I even understand the question. What is there to regard when I can find nothing regardable?

Exactly

It's all ...

I was sitting on the roof picking out the moss and throwing it onto the garden. A thought arose that self identity is little more than the minds recognition of patterns in memory.The mind is excellent in recognizing patterns in all perceptions. When it recognizes a pattern in memory (like I am a ...

Sorry I dropped off the radar yesterday. It was hectic. I think that one of the things holding me back from seeing my identity as it is (not) is that often there is so much els going on that needs attending to that I get distracted from the enquiry. I forget to notice the lack of I in living ...