A thought can't actually say anything. There is awareness of thoughts chattering, appearing, commenting.

Well, a thought can claim it...it can say it, but it can't actually DO it. A thought can't own anything.

1)There never was a me/self/I except in language. All there is is body, sensations, feeling and thought. There isn’t a me/self or I feeling these, and there never was – “I” is a thought that claims ownership of what’s just happening.

2) The illusion of a separate self is the idea of an individual ...

Thanks so much,

I'll probably post tomorrow - just clarifying for myself.

Wonderful, thank you...let's see what's there with the questions then!

Sorry to hear you’re not well. Your generosity in continuing to guide when you been in hospital is amazing. Thank you so much. I hope you are taking as good a care of yourself. I’m very happy to keep looking here until you are well enough to post, so don’t hurry.

I just have one question before you ...

There is no see-er only seen. This was so hard for me to REALLY get. No trees out there that are in direct experience….only seeing trees here. That’s all. There is no here and there, just walking forward there is here, here, here and “there” becomes another here. So if there is only here, no “there ...

Yes, I do think there is a boundary between me an objects. I have a feeling of looking out of this body at the world out there.

With my eyes shut, I don’t have an experience of a boundary of my body, in the sense of feeling where my body ends, my skin etc. But with eyes open there are objects in ...

It doesn’t matter how hard I look, all I can find is the direct experience. Is that it?

All there is is experiencing, there isn’t anything else. Can’t find a boundary – there would have to be a place where there was no experiencing for that to happen. There is no inside or outside experience ...

Noticing from today: nothing disappears without a self….all is still here. Same life, same circumstances, same personality. Nothing changes, but everything changes.

I am still married but I can’t find being "married". Body isn’t married. Thoughts can’t be married – they are like breath, one after ...

It only seems to have a boundary if I regard it as "my" body. If it is just a body it can't exist separately from it's surroundings - so it's not separate in any way.

That's true. Nothing is truly empty. So there is an area filled with air between me and objects.

No I can't feel space.

No, there is no inside or outside of anything. Inside anything is more stuff, and inside that stuff is even more stuff. Outside keeps going in the same way. You can never get to the inside or the outside of anything.

No line between here and there....there is no place where here actually turns into ...

Hi Pallavi,

"Could you find the boundary of your body again for me?"

I can’t find a boundary, except in thoughts. There is just experiencing of body’s sensations, touch pressure, but nothing else. “My” body doesn’t exist in direct experience. There is just this body, whose sensations are felt. I ...

Hi Pallavi, thanks so much for your encouragement.

I am going to sit with the noticing no I in direct experience for one more day. I feel like I need to settle a bit more to sort of consolidate a bit. I will try the boundary exercise after that. Unless you think I should do otherwise.