1) There is no separate entity, self, me , or I at all in any way, shape or form.

2) The illusion of the separate self comes from identifying with thoughts and a body. I see my daughter teaching her one year old the parts of her face and labeling them with her name "Where are Charlotte's eyes ...

Hi Sunil,
There is no me in that awareness but I can see it trying to creep back in. The way the label I splits in two is very subtle. I watched the thought, "Walter (my husband) always talks too much and never listens to me." Then the feeling of annoyance came in. I caught it remembering that there ...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, so, so much for helping me!
Very best regards,
Patricia

Hi Sunil,
I can't find this I that seems to be me anywhere. I was reading on the form and came to this person who said two things that brought me to a new understanding. One, was that I is a label for awareness plus experience and that's what makes us different yet the same because we share ...

Hi Sunil,
Here is my observation on the decision making process: "I have to get up and make coffee." "Maybe today I will just have tea." " I must stop drinking so much soy milk in my coffee." "I'll have some green tea to detox and then I will keep drinking coffee." "I can't give up coffee now." "I ...

Hi Sunil,
I "believed" the I was located in the body but when I stick to direct experience (feeling & sensing) I can't locate an I. I see that there is an imagined I. I can't feel or see or smell or touch or hear an I in the body. But something is aware of feeling, touching , seeing, smelling etc ...

Hi Sunil,
When I am unconsciously lost in thoughts, I am imagining there is an I in there somewhere. The thoughts just come and go. When I observe the thoughts, I can not find the I in thought but then the I that is observing the thoughts seems to be located in the body.
I have also had a few ...

Hello Sunil,
I have a lot of experience looking at the "I". I can not find a physical being or entity that has any substance when I look. I understand this intellectually so I was not surprised to hear in the material that there is no "I ". But my experience of this is limited to certain times. I ...

Hi Sunil,
I have read and reviewed all the rules. Thank you again for offering to be my guide.
Regards,
patricia

Yes, I am so ready. I have been reading some of the other conversations which have been helpful. I am also re-reading the Gate Crashers book.
Thanks you so much for your offer to help.
patricia

Hello!
I have been investigating Advaita Vendanta and non-dualism for about 20 years. Though I have understood the problem of believing I am a separate person, I continue to waver in and out of experiencing the freedom of not being separate. I recently have had the deepest longest lasting ...