Well, I did wonder.... had a feeling the other guides were carefully picking over all my answers - and then to say 'bad answers, you'll have to start again!' - which sounds very familiar... and I can see that there are old habit patterns that get repeated, old beliefs that create 'my world', an ...

I’d love to hear more about the camping trip, but anyway….to pretend, to play the game…

I will pretend as if I’ve never seen these questions before or the answers I might have given in a previous life ; )

1. There is no separate ‘I’ that can be found. The only time that exists is now, so it can’t ...

1. Only the river flows, just being, flowing, life….

2. There is no me to look for something that is just being.

I could say we are done, there is nothing left to do….but I am enjoying smelling the flowers along the way, happy to be on the journey rather than at its end. I’m not sure what ‘pushed ...

Well, it was nice to be away, just being in the moment, not having to think…. Coming back, seeing how thoughts of wanting things to be different from how they are can create a feeling of not being free – but actually, there is total freedom. I think of the Zen saying ‘Eat when you’re hungry, sleep ...

p.s. I'm going on hols for a week tomorrow so won't be writing for a while. Having a break from the computer and a bit more time outside : ) Just to let you know...

Well, things are changing - like when I had the eye problem, which was a bit scary, but my fears of what 'might happen' are seen to be just fantasies. There is relief from the feeling that anything has to be any different from how it is. It can't be any different, because this is how it is. This ...

Thinking about the self – the ‘true self’ or ‘no self’ – the way I would make sense of it is that the true self isn’t what we normally think it is – it isn’t our thoughts, beliefs, reactions, etc. It isn’t the conditioned mind. But if there is a true self it is the unconditioned. It is everywhere ...

Well, the preference for ‘true self’ over ‘no self’ is really because this seems to be the reality, which is true. ‘No self’ is rather definitive, and who knows? We can enquire and then not find anything, but just because we can’t find anything it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, because what ...

Hi - I had read your previous post and looked at the questions, and yes, quite often when I read your questions i feel a bit 'stuck'! Thinking to myself....how to answer this one??? At the same time, something draws me in and I find myself writing. And I'm aware now that there's a lot of 'me' talk ...

Well, I might have known that it was a trick question! I didn't think it could be that simple! So, anyway, for what it's worth, here are my ramblings for tonight:

For me, I like the idea of ‘true Self’, but see no contradiction between this and the ‘no self’ of Buddhism. It is just what is, beyond ...

No, it was part of the eye itself, possibly a tiny amount of pigment that came off the retina to cause a floater - I was diagnosed with 'posterior vitreous detachment', and advised not to do any vigorous exercise for a few weeks (so, a rest from taekwondo...) just in case it caused a tear in the ...

Ok, so A & E (you must call it something else in the States!) is Accident and Emergency. On Friday I was getting ready to go to work, in my kitchen, and something strange, that looked like a tadpole, appeared in front of me. It took a few seconds to realise it was inside my eye, not outside, and as ...

Just to say I'm away for a couple of days and was at A & E tonight observing my experience... but I'm ok, I think! Will write more when I come back.

No, exactly, that’s what I was meaning to say – that who can say what is real? And even what is experienced – so, again, in meditation I experienced pain but – on looking, really being with it, it dissolved into energy – no longer ‘me’ experiencing ‘pain’, just a flow of what is. Through looking ...

I like the way you say there is an intelligence at work which is much greater than thought, and that thinking gets in its way – that is so true! But we can see our thoughts, not be caught up in them, and know that we’re not our thoughts.

I’m reminded of something someone said recently – that we ...