Hi Perry,

No more questions, we're all happy back here :-)

Great and MANY thanks for your help with all of this. :-)

Very best wishes,

Trampas

Good morning Perry. :-) I've been up for a few hours turning all of this over. Conclusions? My habitual tendency is to see all sides of an issue. This was very useful as a student but maybe here it just muddies the waters. So, again in answer to the above question "Is there any work that still seems ...

'I suppose there can be work to be done even if there isn’t a “worker” to do it'

So is there any work that still seems to need to be done here?

As you wrote again, I thought I would postpone bed! :-)

At this point, I am loathe to say 'no there isn't' work left to be done. How do I know? At ...

So is there a belief that there is no self or is it seen that there is not self?

I'm off to bed in a few minutes so this will have to be brief.... I think it's more like when I've looked I've not found a self so in the end I realised there really isn't one. As I've said before the nearest thing I ...

There is no ‘I’ behind the phenomena of experience doing the assessing, but there is an experience of “assessing”. The mind (whatever that is!) assesses things. Assessment occurs. The bag of being comes to a fork in the road and thinks, should it go right or left. One way looks dark and potentially ...

Hi Perry,

Thanks to you and the other guides for all that.

The foetus woke up and was aware.... then woke up again some time later and was aware....and then again and again and again....until at some point he strung the experiences together and developed some sort of self-identification.

The ...

Hi Perry,

And many thanks for taking the time to read all of this and all your help with this process over the last month and a half! :-)

Best,

Trampas

Hi Perry,

4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?

I know I saw it to some degree very early on in this process (as it is really not very complicated!) but this stirred up a lot of conflict and turbulence for a couple of weeks, some of which was around the idea of choosing ...

Hi Perry,

I've just finished work for the day! Hopefully I'll find the time to finish the questions tomorrow. :-)

Buonanotte,

Trampas

Hi Perry,



Would you like to take a bash at the 'six questions'?

Ok, I'm happy to give them a go.

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

No. There is just experience in the present, which includes memories of the past ...

Hi Perry,

Obviously just missed me!

So where do you feel you are up to with this?

Would you say the illusion has been seen through?

Yes, I think it has been seen through.

Best,

Trampas

I mean't "Just like my reflection in the mirror is recognisable but doesn't imply the existence of an 'I'." There was one "but" too many!

Hi Perry

I hope the retreat is going (has gone?) well ... I am a little envious, even if it is rainy and cold out there :-)

Yes, the retreat went well. I'm back in Italy now….. shattered. This will have to be brief! :-)


HOWEVER - 'I' still don't really buy it - the issue of 'deciding' has ...

Hi Perry,

Still raining and cold here in Spain, but the internet has been fixed. :-)

none of this stops 'me' from sitting here feeling as if 'I' exist as more than just a convenient term, so maybe there is still more seeing to be done.


What happens when you investigate this feeling?

Nothing ...

Hi Perry,

Yes, I am able to carry on this dialogue from retreat at least as long as the internet connection holds up. The cloudy, wet conditions here in the hills outside Valencia are bad for the house's satellite and 3G connections.... aside from being in no way what 'I' wanted. :-)



If the ...