Please answer in detail, each question, honestly and earnestly, and refer to direct experience. If the questions requires analysis and
speculation, start with direct experience, here and now first, then let thoughts flow.

Sounds good comsiK.

1) Is there a 'me' or 'you' or 'I' , at all ...

Thank you cosmiK,

Yes, I see what you mean. Do you see that when it "seems to touch the "I"", that is actually impossible, because there is no separate anything that is touched by anything else?

Yes. You can take a knife things in life, and try to carve them into separate things, but by doing so ...

Thank you cosmiK,

And yes, SEEing becomes the norm, separation is seen through, and the process of mental habits/conditioning dropping may be gradual, but the recognition that there is ABSOLUTELY no self can be INSTANT. It is a simple recognition that when clearly seen CANNOT be unseen :)

I have ...

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Are there any more doubts about seeing through the separate self?

To be 100%, there is doubting. But there are also more and more moments where life springs to action by itself, driving the car, getting ready in the morning, the end of the day, all go by themselves. In these ...

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Remember to end the last part of the quote function with

Yeah, sorry about that :)

Sure, there can be all sorts of emotions, such as anxiety, frustration, anger, and they can arise simultaneously with a flurry of "I" / "me" thoughts, but the thing we are checking here is, that ...

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[quote="cosmiK"]Not understanding this "the I". Can you clarify exactly what you mean with reference to direct experience?[quote]

In direct experience there just is the experience. "The I" I was referring to is it. If we term the direct experience the I, there can be an I, but ...

Thank you CosmiK, I understand.

There is a 'feeling' that arises, and a thought/memory that arises in the moment. Is it clear that noone feels it? and those thoughts belong to noone?

No person who feels it. The thoughts are not thoughts of a person. They are thoughts.

The Dream analogy points ...

In a Dream, do you see that even if there was a 1st person character that it is NOT the character that is doing, looking, thinking? Do you see that the dream character or any characters has ZERO awareness and it is ONLY the indivisible Dream that IS?

While it is only the dream that is doing the ...

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Driving home last night, there was driving.
Waking up this morning, there was clothing, showering, teeth brushing. There were thoughts about these activities. Thoughts about the future, and past.
Driving to work there was driving.
At work there was procrastinating, working ...

LOOK again at this. We can divide, with thought, Experience in to thoughts, sensations, etc, but are they actually separate individual 'things' that are weaved together? Is there any actual separation in direct experience?

No, there is no separation in direct experience. It simply is experience ...

You're right, there is no I, outside a placement for convenience.


LOOK again...
is there an "observer" that observes "everything else"?
or
is there an experience-er that experiences Experience?
or
is there a perceiver that perceives?

There is observation, there is experience, there is ...

Taking another chance to provide direction feedback for your questions:

In direct experience, there is just the experience, and observation itself is an experience. We can't experience and think about the experience at the same time, or at least not when we are completely into the experience.

I ...

so... in direct experience, is there an observer or watcher? if so, is this "I" or "me"?

There is something that is watching these hands type. Something observing them type. I don't believe this is really "I" or "me", but if someone said "Al, your nose is bleeding", I would find myself ...

If "You" and "I" are just conveniences, then how is feeling felt, sound heard, and thoughts observed?
with Love.

Leaving all scientific definitions I have been taught behind, feelings appear, sounds appear, thoughts appear. How are thoughts observed? It just happens.

I can put earpulgs in my ...

Hello CosmiK. Thank you for writing with me. I agree to your ground rules, for sure.


So.. first question. Is there a "You" or "I" anywhere, in any form at all? can there ever be?

with Love.

When someone looks at me and says "Hey Al", I know who they speaking to. "You" and "I" are ...