No probs Dev,

Try to keep enquiry strong, post when you can

Tao

Hi Dev

> Awareness and contents of awareness are the same thing??? Awareness IS it's contents?
So what's the problem with being identified with the content of awareness instead of being awareness itself? If they are the same thing?


Pretty much yeah. Could the 'contents' be anything other than ...

What is with sense of locality? I see the sense of locality as the anchor point of personality: the sense of being localy (in) here, "behind" the specific point of view... or just to have a specific point of view.

Do you feel yourself being nowhere/everywhere? Do you feel "yourself" as not ...

Hi Dev, apologies for lateness again, the days are flying by ATM!


No. Doing happens. Making plans happens. Being angry when plans crashes happens. Cursing happens too.

Good im glad this is seen.

Energetic shift would just be an appearance in/as awareness.
Yes, that is understood.

Good, so ...

Hi dev,

No, the work is still in full swing.


No prob,
While you are working, keep looking to see if there is a do-er at all.

Are you ever actually 'doing' the work? Or is it just happening of its own accord?


Yes. And I also saw Nathan Gill's clip "Awareness does not need an 'energetic ...

Hi Dev,

Apologies for lateness. Has work died down at your end? Be good to get the daily thing going again.


I must say that I somehow KNOW more about the lack of self than to feel it.
I notice a hidden expectation here.
As Tony Parsons would say, speaking about enlightenment: "It is not about ...

Hi Dev, great stuff.

But nevertheless, yesterday I had an argument with my wife. And it was a heated one. And it was amazing. As I stood there alone after the situation I still could not find the one to whom it is all happening. The stories swirled wildly in the head. But for whom? "Like a tale ...

Hi Dev

Hummm.... Yes, it seems to be the phantom itself.
"Out there" seems to be only ideas. The whole existence seems to be just an idea. "In here" seems to be also an idea, projected backwards ("attention turning to itself"). Projected onto... nothing, it seems...
Can't find anything. Before ...

Hi jiten, no probs, answer when u can. Been quite rushed at my end too, will post soon.
Tao

T: Is 'daily experience' anything more than a thought appearing now?
No, "daily experience" is a thought, ... as well as "America" and "my country".
Everything we could talk about here are thoughts and concepts anyway.

Yes, except direct experience. 'It is' regardless of whether thoughts are ...

Conceptually -- yes. In DE -- yes. Although the phantom is still alive, sometimes opaque, sometimes transparent.
I guess in similar stage Byron Katie invented The Work to help herself disperse the seeming concreteness of concepts...

Yes although it is worth noting here that this is considered ...

T: Can you find America in DE?
No. This one is easy as it is abstract. I can't even find "my country". It is just another name labeled on experience.


Good.
Can you find a world?
A self?
A brain?
A universe?

T: Multiplicity is an idea that shows up in awareness. Can you find a thousand things ...

Hi Dev sorry for late reply

T: Is existence/experience ever subjective? If so, WHAT/WHERE is the subject? Or is subjectivity an idea about an experiencER?
A default answer would be 'yes'. But in DE the subject cannot be found. Assumption is that the subject is what's doing the looking. But then ...

Hi jiten sorry for late reply

1) its easy to notice thought and also easy to notice sensations related to touch and taste. But the article categorizes seeing, hearing and smelling also as sensations. Not sure why these 3 too have been called as sensations. experiencing seeing as sensations has not ...

One sense I am getting is that 'looking' is the tool, not 'questioning and understanding the answer'.


Yes exactly

I always had this fear that I am not sincere or honest in going to D.E.....wanted to come-out as quickly as possible by performing the basic minimum practice.....I hope re ...