Hi Behzad,
Thankyou for your kind invitation, I am interested in joining the group, and have sent you a private message.


Thanks,
Su

Hi Behzad,

Dear Su, could you elaborate this sentence. There is experiencing the physicality through awareness.

What I meant by this sentence is that there is experiencing through physical senses: seeing,feeling, smelling, hearing, and tasting. The physical body is required in order to have ...

Do you "understand" the illusion intellectually or have you actually experienced it physically?

I understand the illusion intellectually, and am experiencing the physicality of illusion continuously through awareness. The self arises within the illusion, but as a thought only. There is a slight ...

Hi Behzad,

In the beginning you said "I hope to feel joy, happiness, freedom, with a release from the suffering caused from the attachment of feeling that there exists a self." Do you still experience that suffering?
It was the drawing in/identification with negative/emotional thoughts that ...

Hi Behzad,

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever?
No, I can clearly see now that there is no separate ‘I’ or ‘Me’, as this is just a fictitious creation from thought.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self ...

Hi Behzad,
been doing a lot more looking, and can now see more clearly:

Can you ever be pulled in to thoughts? Is it really you that goes in and out of thoughts?
When there is identification with thoughts, is there really anyone that gets identified? Where is that one that gets identifeid? Can ...

Hi Behzad,

I s there an expectation that being taken in by thoughts should not happen? If life is all there is, who/what is it that prefers the allowing instead of being taken by thoughts?
And
If there is no you like you have confirmed who/what is that has a problem with how life should be? How ...

Hi Behzad,

Very good, so if there is no I/Me doing anything here, is there anything the I/Me can find, like enlightenmet?

No, there is no I/Me to find anything, or to be enlightened, but there is something that a shift, be it subtle or otherwise, happens to when this is seen through.

So is ...

Hi Behzad,

All this that you describe reinforce the sense of self you say. But can all this change the fact of there being an I or not?
No, when looking again at this, nothing that is arising can change the fact that there is no I. It is a distraction from seeing what is really there, or not ...

Hi Behzad,

Can you zoom in that something that feels like an individual? Is a thought? A feeling? Look into it and tell me exactly what it is?

I cannot zoom into any one particular thing that makes me feel like an individual, but looking from direct experience, It comes about from a collection ...

Hi Behzad,

See if you find an I/Me that is having the experience of being lost in thoughts?

I have looked at the experience of being lost in thoughts, and I can't find an I/Me there at all. The I/Me is included in the thoughts, as part of the thinking. When this is looked at, it is clear that ...

Hi Behzad,
Sorry forgot to add that I also wanted relief from being sucked in by my thoughts, and identifying with them, only later to then think hang on a minute, I've just been taken in by my thoughts again. Sometimes the realisation of thought identification doesn't happen until I am well into a ...

Hi Behzad,
Thankyou for your kind offer to guide me, I am very grateful.
I have read and agree to all the ground rules, and will be happy to answer all your questions with 110% honesty. So here we go!

So, What are your expectations for liberation?
How will this feel?
How will this change you ...

Hello,
I am really in need of some guidance please, in the hope that I make it through the Gate. I have been reading the Gateless gatecrashers and looking at a few videos on youtube from various people. I kinda get this no self thing, as in it makes sense when I think about it but aghhh! Also can't ...