Thanks, Vince, for everything! Heh, heh, "everything" sounds different!"Friended" you on Fb. Enjoyed scrolling down and seeing many already familiar themes. Being Magyar, (Hungarian) I signed that petition straight off. But it is the stabilization and "deepening" that are most attractive right now ...

Anton, say (a little) more on the possible I that's possibly lurking. From experiencing, not logic.

It has to do with what appears as barrages of thoughts about everything from being a complete fake to strings of thoughts in the form of "I will, I need, I see, blah, blah, blah." There are often ...

Do you decide, intend, choose, control events in Life? Do you make anything happen? Give examples from your experience. What happens arises as spontaneously as thoughts arise; there doesn't seem to be a difference. It's kind of like "Oh, that's happening." So there's no control, because there's no ...

Oh, I have to add: loved that you used "grock," as Heinlein was a major influence in my childhood and later. One of my book cases has a shelf devoted to his works. A recent conversation with Steve, also a Heinlein fan, had these lines:

A) Some changes happening as result of wroking (sic) with ...

Kind of relieved and not (about what?), expected it, didn't, and all that. One wonder is that there seems to be an empirical understanding of what the physicists mean by saying that it is all probability until it is observed. And then it is still just something observed. In the moment. Because the ...

What it feels like is that there is a movie going on. It has unexpected scenes and revelations. There are still desires, comparisons, planning, and things getting done, but there is no, or only a suspected? trace of doing. There is watching for accuracy. Using "I" is for navigational purposes, not ...

It was because it was a logical deduction and not experiencing.

Yes, and I missed that one, lol! Like yours better; more practical. What you say makes me question more about experience vs concept. As I indicated, there seems to be a process of clarification going on.

Pertinent to that, I just ...

This sounds like a story. Why would i say that ?

Because it presumes there is "someone" to "go" with it.

Love,

Anton

So it occurs to me on the way home from the store that looking for or experiencing some kind of change as a result or goal or proof is itself not the point. What's looking doesn't change and isn't involved in the "result," however pleasing or not that might be. Looking between thoughts must be for ...

Do you think that the baby start out with conceptual thinking ? (you can give me a short paragraph to flesh out the influences that start the idea of a self here)

No, the baby must start out as a blank in action. The brain in some ways, the parts that make for memories and habits, must be like a ...

Hey, just thought of a good one: I've a Monty Python T-shirt that says I'm not dead yet. I could wear it til my name turns blue.

Love,

Anton :) rofl

Now, don't look At the thoughts or their contents. Just look at the flow, at the stream of mind stuff passing into and out of consciousness. Now here's the good bit. Once you have gauged the tempo of the flow of thoughts, you can LOOK between them. LOOK into the space behind them by LOOKing through ...

Don't turn it into a Doing. Allow it to be a happening.
Where does the thought come from that says, "Ah, I'll go looking now..." ?
From the same place, the results of Looking and Seeing will come.

Anton, consider a new baby. Can you describe the influences that give birth to the illusion of an I ...

What would be "postulating" ? (one word) mind
Now give me a comment on the Recognizing. Recognizing also just happens.
"no" would have done it here too. Anton, this is important.
When you say "no" and stop (mentally) talking. The "no" resonates like a bell. It lingers. It has an aftertaste that ...

And identifying with preferences.