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Hi Sunil,

I would like to ask you about how do you feel? No, is that all there is?

I said I felt more spacious, not sure how else to put it. Spacious in that there is room around all of experience, to see it for what it is and not try to grasp onto it in any way. There is also an excitement ...

Dear Sunil,

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. Describe it fully as you see it now.
3) How does it feel to ...

Dear Sunil,
Yes, I am ready for the set questions.

Thanks so much for your helpful and gentle questioning.

Love,
Singhashri

Dear Sunil,

Spent the morning looking into this:

I will let you discover the answer yourself to that. Share what you come up with.

Let us return to direct experience.

Is there a thinker of thoughts from what you can experience?
Is there an experiencer of these experiences?

For now we will ...

Only knowing then, that has nothing to do with a self?

Hi Sunil,

I suspect the clever self may simply be renaming itself into this awareness that is basically the god concept and enchanting you. Is she really there? Remember we are doing direct experience here, i.e. if we have to imagine this awareness then it s beyond my expertise or interest to ...

Hi Sunil,

I want you to work a bit more on the "I", me and mine.

Will you be finally awakened?

All these things that have happened because of your past work, did it happen to you? Where was this you then? Where is it now?

There is no me that will be finally awakened, nor a final awakening ...

Dear Sunil,

I would like to know if this is the first step, what do you expect when fully awakened?

I don't think there will be a single moment when I am fully awakened. I think that there is simply a process of deepening awareness that goes on infinitely and has nothing to do with me. This ...

Hi Sunil,

I would like to reiterate one of my questions about you being a female. Are you? Or is that just a female body? If there is no you how can there be a female you?

Just a female body, yes. There is no me and no female me. There is no quality of femaleness that can be identified beyond ...

Sitting on the bed, heavy eye-lids, slow, shallow breath. pressure on the right side of the back of the head. Sore cuticle on the left side of the right index finger. Tension in the left middle back. Tingling sensation up the outside of my left thigh. Heart beating in the inside of the ears. Clothes ...

Hi Sunil,
I'll reinterpret your questions using the pronoun "she" and adjective "her", as I am female, and that conditioning probably won't go away even when I see through the delusion of self.

You say there is a person by that name. Is there really a person? Can you directly experience him? Where ...

Dear Sunil,
Yes, I agree to the rules, although putting down Adyashanti's The end of Your World, which I am half way through at the moment, will be difficult =)



I knew you would ask me about the name as soon as I sent my response. Singhashri is not me, it is a name given to this particular ...

Hi Sunil,
Yes, I am ready. Not sure what you mean by using first names, Singhashri is my ordained Buddhist name and the name I go by in all areas of my life. Many thanks for offering to guide me, looking forward to it!

I have been practicing Buddhism for 13 years. Recently on a retreat, I had a very strong experience of non-separateness. I was looking into another woman’s eyes and was suddenly aware of the absence of a sense of a separate self. There was nothing that I could distinguish as me in the experience ...