Re your answer to question 3: exactly what is meant with "choices are not real". In what way exactly?

In the way that my brains create a story around them and associates them with past experiences, but they are part of that false "I am". Making it look like this external self are in charge. Or ...

Hi Vivi,

Can you clarify this? You *seem* to be unable to find any, does that mean there could be a separate self you haven't been able to locate?

Words are limiting... what I meant is that for a past week, as I have looked at all the stories going on, I have realized more and more that there ...

Hi Vivi,

an acquaintance of mine gave me a profound insight that kind of helped me to get a better direct experience of what thoughts, feelings etc. are. The quote in essence is this: "there is no matrix. there is no us. just the consciousness and the things that are happening inside our heads ...

Hi Vivi,

as it happens, life happens and I've been under some stress -- but I haven't forgotten DE'ing those questions on your list. Will do my best to respond you later today. :) Just wanted to check in.

-sami

Hi Vivi:

Any doubts left that there is no separate I?
If yes, what?


There is no truth to a separate I - at least can't direct experience it.. but then again, I am still curious why the story happens as it happens. How life just happens...the mechanism behind it...but that is not the purpose of ...

Hi Vivi,

yes -- I am here, although a bit preoccupied of which is against the "guidelines" of a message per day. I do my best to keep up and make some adjustments so that the greatest benefit of this guiding can be experienced.

[quoteHow can a headless have a brain?
Not looking for guesses as ...

Hi Vivi,

hope you had a great vacation. I'm sorry for a short delay on my behalf -- for some reason the system doesn't notify me of new messages -- although I've clicked the message chain to be followed (most of the times, notifications arrive when I visit this site again).

Well, lets get the ball ...

Hi Vivi,

Thanks for both posting - I will answer the 1st one tomorrow morning - after I have had a bit of time to experiment with the questions... but this 2nd one I will answer right now.

What do you know?

From looking directly at inner, all is there already, complete as it is. I don't know ...

Hi Vivi,

men and promises that are kept -- can't get both in the same package.. hahah ;) So, after a good day at work, sat down on my sofa, with a thought, I will respond, and fell asleep and took a good 5 hours long nap. Oh well, the response is not within 6 hours, but within the same day as ...

Hi Vivi,

I have been doing the looking into DE and something is cracking within. Can't find a decision maker, it looks like it is a story or a mask attached to so many other things that I've been taught to be, own, and do from the childhood. Looking into DE of this mask, it feels there is no me ...

Hi Vivi,

Go for a walk. How is decisions made to turn left or right? To walk slow or fast etc.
There might be a thought *I will turn left' and then a left turn is happening and a thought claiming: I decided to turn left.' Very well. How did the decision happen exactly? Where there a 'you' involved ...

Good evening, Vivi! :)

Well, just a quick update what I've been up to, before I answer today's question, re: direct looking. Spent today a greater portion of my day looking directly into my experiences and in lack of a better word, (and I apologize my language in advance), this process is like a ...

Hi Vivi,

alright, back to business with full throttle; hoping you had a great weekend! I must admit that I am feeling a bit perpexled by taking direct experience to these questions, but I won't so much try to think and rationalize about them, but instead get a glimpse of the experience underneath ...

Hi Vivi,

thanks for a great posting, read it yesterday, but started answering today. Then accidentally closed the window, and lost it, but will re-write my answer within few hours. Hope you have had a great weekend!

-sami

Hi Vivi,

speaking of looking and taking the initiative to Direct Experience -- I have been asking this question from myself and looking what comes out of it: "There is no 'me' experiencing this, never have been, never will be. No 'me' experiencing daily events -- never have been".

This caused me ...