Please find below my responses to the final questions. Thank you for your review.

1) Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? how about self, is there anything that is separate from everything else?


There is no me anywhere, in any way, shape or form. As ...

Dear Nona,

I am about to send the responses to my final questions, but before I do, I want to thank you so very much for your extraordinary kindness and generosity. I have learned a great deal through your crystal clear and straight-forward guidance. I am particularly appreciative and touched ...

Hi Nona!

Has your perspective shifted? That's all Liberation is: a tiny shift in Perspective that changes nothing except the experience of everything.


Yes, there is a different perspective and it is a tiny shift. There is no 'intermediary' or 'translator' telling 'me' what is going on. There ...

Hello Dear Nona,

It has been a while since I last wrote, and apologize for not honoring the agreement for more frequent communication.

Want to share life experiences below with you; they appear to point to direct seeing; and would like your feedback, final clarifying questions if you see fit ...

Hello dear Nona!

So what DO you see? What do you see with the eyes in your head, Richard? Just look at your life as you experience it now. What are you seeing? Check your sensations.

When you say to check my sensations, I, in earnest attempt to do just as you prescribe. When LOOKing, there is ...

Hi Nona!

Now LOOK and see how what you wrote about the label "fear" is also true of the label "self". Self is a thought; you can't find it because it isn't real. LOOK!

I am LOOKing, definitely not finding any self. Past that, confusion remains. When I LOOKed for fear, there is a knowing (perhaps ...

Hi Nona!!

The latest… ; )

And what is being protected here? Ask the resistance what it is resisting, the avoidance what it is avoiding. LOOK the fear in the face and ask it what it's protecting. There is no self to protect. None that needs protection

My initial answer again was related to ...

Hello my dear friend Nona!!!

I have noticed a shift in perspective. Have you?

There is a shift in perspective that has progressed since we first started working together. There is more clarity, less story, and no caveats as it was at first.


Have you seen through the illusion that there is a ...

Let me know how the morning's exercises go and I'll give you more if you want or need them.

Hi Nona,

OK, so the exercises continue to be helpful. I continue to try to point to 'me' or touch 'Richard', and have not done either. Similar thoughts as before - 'there is no Richard to touch, no me to ...

Hi Nona! I have been working on the suggested exercises, and have an update:

So is 'me' the body? Do this little exercise. Close your eyes; get very clear where 'me' is, and when you've got it, lift a hand and with a finger Point to the 'me'. Then open your eyes and look at what the finger is ...

Hi Nona,

So, I have done a considerable amount of looking… I can say definitively that no orchestrator/do-er is seen. None. I can’t see a do-er/orchestrator; it is a concept and not real.

I took a walk as described earlier, no do-er. I look inside, and get confused. Even those who have seen past ...

Hi Nona,

What in your experience requires a Do-er in order to happen? Not what in your Thinking, but what in your Direct Experience?

No experience requires a do-er. Period.

I really tried to find a do-er that makes my experiences happen. Did not find at all. What I have come to realize is that ...

Hi Nona,

Below is response to one of your questions. More forthcoming. Finding myself being tired and sleeping a good bit the past few days.

Do you ever arrive somewhere and realise you were "on autopilot"? You have arrived but have no distinct memory of how you got there? What is 'driving' then ...

Hi Nona,

Noticing the difference between actual experience and labels, between 'the map' and 'the territory', is key here. If you have any confusion at all, let us address it!

I see actual experience as real. It is simply what is happening. I see labels as concepts, which are not real. I see a ...

Hi Nona,

Please find my answers below.

Check it: an experience happens, and mind judges and labels it as good/bad, vibrant/dull, flowing/stopped, creative/stagnant. These are just labels—words applied to events by the mind. They have no impact on the actual event that happens—they only impact ...