Important questions, so sat with them a while:

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

There is no separate “I,” “self,” “me,” anywhere to be found, in any way shape or form and there never was…the concept of an individual “me” is ...

Ready for the final questions or is there some doubt to clear up?

Ready.

What is this 'I AM' ?

“I AM” is inexplicable..."a finger pointing to the moon."
“I am” is the illusory self…mistaken identity.

The gate’s right here, got the joke
What happened ? What is the joke?

It was just so funny…of course there’s no “me,” the very idea is absurd. And yet, here “I” am. Go figure!

Sounds very good.

Digging a little bit further.
Does something called mind exists on itself?
What is it made from?



Hi Patrick,

The gate’s right here, got the joke! Thinking the mind is a field of information and energy that’s tapped into, nothing personal, then of all things Ch. 11 of Mark ...

Okay, been mulling this over and this is what I’ve come up with so far: It’s not that memory and projection don’t exist because they do…but in the mind and, as PTSD shows, also in the body. The “I,” which is a conflation of the mind, body and emotions is not real and, since the “I” doesn’t really ...

For cause and effect to happen you need that somethings are related in time.
Something in the past makes that something happens now. Something now makes that something will happen in the future.
You told in a previous post that past and future don't exist. That there is only now.
There is only this ...

Thanks for the very clear answers.

Is there something in control in life ?
What about cause and effect?



Okay, okay, got me! Gonna hafta dump it all here:

If there’s no “me,” then obviously it’s not how it appears to be – a me making decisions, choices (“good” and “bad”), about how this life ...

When does pain become suffering?

Pain becomes suffering when it’s personalized and made part of the story of “me.” Otherwise it’s just pain.

Is there someone to melt with the universe?
Is there something separate from the universe?

The senses combined with conditioning create the physical ...

Raven: "Am not quite sure how to go from watching the flow to “being the flow” but am working on it."
Patrick: You can’t do it, just relax, total relaxation, let it happen.

Went into total relaxation and sensed that there are no boundaries between the body and the surroundings, and even though ...

Notice the difference between
the character, the player named Raven with her likes and dislikes, preferences, talents, abilities and inabilities. This is how life expresses life.
and
the personality, the self-image, the sense of self, the identity build over the years, pushed by the society to ...

Am not quite sure how to go from watching the flow to “being the flow” but am working on it.
You can’t do it, just relax, total relaxation, let it happen.



Alone all day today: R E L A X !!!!!

Fear can block this.
Like you say, simply observing the sensation weakens it.
Thoughts are building a ...

More like a shift in identification or realization of the truth
See it more as a shift in perception. The world, reality, is what it is, only your relation to it changes.


Thanks - clear!

Now I find myself worrying that I won’t get it, Fear actually…
Look at this fear. What is the bodily ...

Hi Patrick,

In the Totally Weird Department (because dreams of any significance very rarely happen here): Fell asleep yesterday afternoon and dreamt that I was sitting at a large table with some other people, the room was all hazy, and I was a little woozy because I could see thru the illusion, but ...

What I try is to question your answers, not or as less as possible to tell how I see it, so that you can see it by yourself.

Got it!

It’s amazing that something that doesn’t exist can feel so real.
Do you see this, that it doesn’t exist as a separate entity, that it’s only a feeling ?


There ...