Hi, John

I ve been doing the exercises. I am afraid I didnt understand very well the first one, but I did it anyway. i dont know what to tell you except that once I experienced more vividly that the I was in the thought and without thoughts the I would desapear. it was as if I were space with a ...

Hi John
I really appreciate your effort.
i ve just retunn home frrom a trip with my students.
i ll do the exercises you suggest me and Ill write you.
Thank you very much

Hi, John
I wrote you but there must have been some faliure.

We are quite well, but my grandfather is having a bad time.
Thanks John

So then if you are not a person, what is it that is nervous?

It is a feeling in this body. Anxiety, a certain feeling in chest and stomach. I know that this is ...

Hi, john
Thank you for the condolences

Are you really a person? Is there really an "I" that is nervous?

I know I am not a person from my point of view. I see other prsons but from my point if view I am a kind of background awareness I cant see, no color, no shape, a body without head and ...

Hi John
It's being difficult to deal with sad feelings. i 've been observing my feelings. Sad feelings related to memories, toughts...but sometimes i am not able to perceive a certain thought however sadness is rhere anyway. I guess there are subtle thoughts functioning without me realizing.
Storys ...

Hi, John
This is a sad day, because my grandmother has just passed away. I 'll try to observe thoughts and feelings arising and I'll tell you about. I guess this is a good moment to observe suffering if I am able to and i am not taken over? By grief.
Thank you, John

Hi, John

Thoughts say anxiety should not be there, but becausei it is perceived as a discomfort or painfull. Thoughts imagine a better situation in which there is no pain, no anxiety. Circumstances trigger this axiety. I can see this has a lot to do with thoughts. Thoughts are trigger by ...

Hi, John

I see that the universe is not confused or not confused, confusion is related to thoughts. John I dont undérstand awareness. Am I right if I say thar awareness and that which awareness is aware of, are the same thing. Is there no difference between awareness and things? Am I right if I say ...

Hi, John

When you say there is only one awareness, not my awareness or your awareness, I dont know, that is very impressive. I have read that sentence several times. It is difficult to see that but it is very suggestive (interesting)
I will rewrite the sentence:"there is the feeling that choosing ...

Hi John
When I say the I is still functioning I mean that I have the same feeling of being aseparated individual though in direct experience I cant find the evidence of an I but I do feel "my identity"
I feel I can choose this or that, not always it is possible but in certain circumstances I feel ...

Hi John
I have to answer all your questions saying No. i havent found in direct experience an absolute evidence of the existence of an I. There is the kind of feeling of an I, but I cant prove its existance, it is more like an assumption, but a verycompelling illusion, but there is no significative ...

Hi John
Yes, many times a thought appears and a feeling follows it, and other times a thought follows other thought. One thing triggers the other.
If I rewrite the phrase witout I,: there is less worrisome and there is a seeing them not as enemies but as other things happening. Your deep question is ...

Hi, John
I have been realizing how thoughts take possesion of feelings very fast and put lables on them, so we feel through thoughts i dont know what else to tell you. I keep observing my true experience without the veil of thoughts. I feel a bit less worried about thoughts, trying not to see them ...

Hi, John. I have been out for three days with mu students, but I was paying attention at direct experience as carefully as I could, and I read the whole thread again. You are right there are steps back and forward. I found very usefull and relieving what you wrote about thoughts. About letting ...

Hi John
I think confusion has to do with a mental process. If there were no thoughts, there wouldnt be confusin. I can see that. And I can see that thoughts darken the vision of this as it is. But thoughts show up constantly and they are impossible to stop, so how can I see without thoughts, it is ...