One more thing. This is hard to put into words. The point of acknowledging the lack of a person is to recognize that consciousness is non locatable. The body-mind is of the world of form. Consciousness is of the world of awareness. Neither can exist without the other. But form is locatable while ...

Hi Andrew,
I typed this on the flight to Barcelona. It was a good opportunity to reflect and refine the understanding. So here goes...

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

No. There was an assumption that "I" existed but nothing more. That assumption was ...

There is no doubt, I am sure (or, there is sureness), although it still has to settle in a bit.

It happened this afternoon when the song "I am Superman" popped into my head and I started giggling. It was obvious that Clark is just like superman, a well known fictional character.

I think what was ...

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 hope you're feeling better today. :)

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?

Decisions whether to eat a banana or an apple are so trite that I can hardly call them decisions. I ...

You asked me to examine how I am living in a dualistic way. I don't know. I don't feel like I am fighting life. In fact all of the most important decisions I have had really seemed to make themselves.

I moved from Philly to Seattle without really deciding to. I had never been here before. One day ...

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. It was whether ...

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.

Every two or three nights I find myself awake at 4am with nothing but liberation on my mind. I'll either get ...

I was eating lunch today at my favorite Indian joint. typically I eat while looking at Facebook or reading stuff on Kindle. Today I just ate. I noticed how the body-mind could eat a whole meal without my involvement. I notice how the flavor and texture of the food didn't need me to taste of feel ...

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 about life ...

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?

It's all so clear ...

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 ...