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by CPJ
Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:06 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
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Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

7) in what ways has thing changed your life? what impact will this have on your life?
I experience more presence. Not the forced meditative presence, but more like it just happens. It's not a concept. It's not even presence. It feels raw and real. I experience less attachment, to ideas and ...
by CPJ
Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:55 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

Thank you again!
by CPJ
Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:00 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

1) Is there a 'me', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? Will there ever be?
No. Not now, not ever.
2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works.
The illusion is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. It's a story we ...
by CPJ
Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

What is clear, is that no matter what happens, and how turbulent and emotional it may be, that there is no separate self whatsoever. Is that clear?

This is clear to me. I understand that it's all experience and no self. I just listened to a talk by Adyashanti about this last night, and it helped ...
by CPJ
Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:33 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

check if this Awareness is personal? Is it "I"/"me"?
It's not
1) how it was pre-illusion
2) when you saw it and describe the shift
3) what is different now after
Basically... what has shifted? what has changed?

I started to see the illusion at least conceptually before this process. The turning ...
by CPJ
Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:39 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance


if there is no separate self, then what is there? (answer in the best way you can describe it directly from your experience)
The experience of the moment. That's my experience. It's hard not to attach ideas that I've read about onto it, whether it is "god, "awareness," "oneness," whatever ...
by CPJ
Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:18 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

This will always be present and doesn't need to change. It is that sense of aliveness that is later referred to as 'I am ____' or taken to be 'me'. If this is your experience then you need to investigate if this sense of aliveness/existence is Personal? If so where is this person or claimant ...
by CPJ
Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:07 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

so... do you exist?
No. There is still an experience of existing most of the time. There are brief moments of experiencing not existing.
by CPJ
Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:43 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

Is there an Experiencer anywhere, in any form or in any way? Or is there just a seamless Experience, and thoughts about it?
There is just experience, and thought, which is part of experience.
Is there a separate you,me anywhere at all? Was there ever? What about a self? Is there one? Will there ...
by CPJ
Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:15 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

You said there is a greater understanding of "what I am". Explain. What are you?
It feels difficult to choose the words. I was trying to say that what I formally thought of as a solid ego or "I" is an experience, not a solid thing.
by CPJ
Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:03 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

At those times, notice who is frustrated, or threatened, and identify what this nonexistent self is? Is it one of the 6 sense streams (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, thinking) or a combination of them? or perhaps a sense of aliveness/being/presence? LOOK DEEPLY into it.
I'm just ...
by CPJ
Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:37 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

Is there a choice here? Or a seamless experience conceptualized as choice?
There is no choice. That would imply a chooser. It feels more like an experience of a thought.
Is there an e experience, doer, agent, chooser, self, entity anywhere at all? Investigate with your own daily activities to ...
by CPJ
Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:22 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

1) there is a decider, and there is a decision made
2) there is just a decision, then just movement
3) there is just a happening that is labelled several things in succession
WHICH ONE IS MORE ACCURATE FOR YOU (TEST IT)?
There is the reading of the task, which is an experience, then a thought to ...
by CPJ
Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:59 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

1) get up. walk slowly. are you walking, or walking happening?
I feel the movement. It is almost voluntary, but it comes from a suggestion. The physical walking is happening, but it is spurred by a thought.
2) move your hand up and down. is moving just happening, or are you moving it?
Similar to ...
by CPJ
Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:31 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Looking for guidance
Replies: 49
Views: 5173

Re: Looking for guidance

This has been challenging. "I" walk and raise my hand, because it's my thoughts, or my direction that tells my body to do it. I did it with very little thought though. In that state, I just felt like my body was moving. I don't know who moved it.
The objects "I" viewed, were "my" perceptions of ...

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