Thank you so much for your help Sunil,

That's fabulous, I was expecting some more questions to discombobulate my brain, but I can now do that by using my honed DE skills to look at Fear !!

Go well, Teresa x

Hi Sunil,

I've combined your questions in with the others, & put them in the order of the original questions. Answering some of these has wobbled my thoughts, so there may be more pondering & answers needed, but I've decided to post these rather than wait till the morning & maybe more understanding ...

Hi Sunil
Here are my answers to the final questions.

Here are the final questions. Take your time, do them in parts if you like. Again from de point of view.

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

There is no separate entity ...

Thanks Sunil

I think it will be tomorrow now before I get to answer the questions. Hopefully it will be there before you get up.

Teresa

Hi Sunil
I've started my reply to the questions but it's going to take a while ... I may get time this afternoon or evening, or will certainly have time tomorrow.

Thanks for all your help, I'm quite enjoying being in this space & think I'll have a whole new way of meditating opening up to me ...

Hi Sunil

Yes please ask the final questions, I'm happy to answer them as best I can.

I think emotions must be a mix of body sensations and thoughts. So if I'm alone in the house overnight I hear a noise. I then try & assign a meaning to it - is it a branch banging against the wall in the wind, or ...

Wow, thank you Sunil. I'm just eating lunch & will do a fuller response later.
Teresa xx

I've been spending the day enjoying just experiencing in my normal life - feels much more open :)

Hi Sunil,


Now can you find the thinker of thoughts that produces these images and the imaginary self?

If there is no thinker to be found, can there be a decision maker of your life? Recognizing that choices and decisions are also thoughts.

So, we are now left with experiences, of sensations, of ...

Hi Sunil

I'm going to think about these overnight & answer in the morning. I'm watching The Ipcress File & it's a bit too engrossing to try & think about a thinker as well ...

Teresa

The visual image of the whole self is of me as an alive being with senses & thoughts. It just looks like I physically am as opposed to the images of parts of me that don't look like my physical body.

The partial selves aren't physical parts, but parts like wise woman, monster, the part that hates ...

Lots of "I"s etc in the next paragraph ...

I don't have a visual image of no self. The visual image of my whole "self" is as I am in the mirror, maybe with fewer wrinkles and it sits in my body. I also have visual images of parts of myself, some of which I've sculpted or made pictures of. These are ...

I shall leave these sitting in my mind for my dreams to play with :) x

Hi Sunil

"my mind" is part of the corporate identity made up of mind & senses, & I guess experiences. I've just reread the Direct Experience article. I like "Experience experiencing itself". That seems to describe "my mind" & also includes all the senses. There is no owner of the mind, the mind is ...

Hi Sunil

I've done a lot of travelling today, home now. I've been reflecting on how choices are made during the day. For a lot of choices they follow on from an initial choice. For example, I was away for the weekend, and decided to come back today. That was my mind looking at external happenings ...

"Then it starts to get complicated... Adding labels - adding me, mine etc is straightforward, seen and once seen can be discarded except when needed for clarity"

Fascinating - now reading this & wondering where it came from !! ho hum, sit with it.

On to choices. I've already done some work on ...