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by knabo
Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:10 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

What's missing?

I have let this question float for a few days. It seems there is an answer but I can not put it into words.

From the opening page:

a global movement of people helping others to see through the illusion of self

The self is illusion, but what is doing the seeing?

As far as ...
by knabo
Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:11 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

I have been giving some more consideration to this question:

Please explain in full what this illusion is and how it works from your own experience.

It seem the first three years or so of life I survived with pure awareness. I only say this because I have no memories of this period yet ...
by knabo
Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:02 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

I agree, thoughts are only of concepts. Words are only concepts. Direct experience is through awareness before judgement, before concepts, before anything is written.

Let me rewrite this answer:

1.How does it feel to see through the illusion of a separate self?

It feels like the separate self ...
by knabo
Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:45 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

6 times out of 10, thoughts insist there must be Some_Thing that is aware
3 times out of 10, thoughts recognize Some_Thing does not exist, and so there must be No_Thing that is aware
1 time out of 10, awareness just is
by knabo
Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:27 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

When you say I've asked other guides to view and comment. what was it that did the asking?

We can do this all day.

I don't know what other language to use here. This one will try to use less "I"s in the concepts that are put in this reply

When the illusion of a separate self is created there ...
by knabo
Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:07 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

1.How does it feel to see through the illusion of a separate self?

It feels like I have nothing to do. I have no books to read, I have no ‘self improving’ to do. I have nothing to search for. This is good since I did not know what I was searching for in the first place.

2. What’s the difference ...
by knabo
Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:15 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

For lack of a better word we can call it truth. More real, less imagined. Those are not good words either.

Language, I would say, is the greatest enforcer of the separate self. After finding no experience of a separate self, people will speak to you as if you are separate. Your own language will ...
by knabo
Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:47 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

That's it then. The illusion is supported by the language we use. That's why it seems so persistent. Just when you think you've seen through the illusion someone will come up and ask, "What did you do today?" or ask my opinion. I get funny looks at times because I am slow to answer. I feel like I ...
by knabo
Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:58 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

Maybe we have chosen our words poorly.

Maybe we should say there is no continuous separate self, or there is no persistent separate self.

What seems to me is that action is taken. Then a self is created for review. Then the next action is taken. Rinse and repeat. Maybe this is why I can take ...
by knabo
Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:37 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

Have you seen through the illusion of the separate self?

The separate self who is in charge is not there. It is clear there is no decision maker. But who are you talking to? And why? What is the "you" in the above sentence referring to? I can't find an agent doing the harmonizing. But I can ...
by knabo
Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:35 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

What is this thing you call ‘life’ that presents this illusion? What is this “I” that feels compelled to harmonise...and with what? You wrote really well about it, so I'm guessing that you know WHY...

I agree, without a common understanding of what the words mean we will just circle around ...
by knabo
Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:53 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

The same thing that you just found.

Life continues to flow with or without the influence of an answer.
by knabo
Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:19 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

BYOFT and start shedding what you aren't, to let some light in.
Ok, it's been three days, so I guess I have my assignment. I will be my own f-ing teacher.
by knabo
Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:45 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

look around without drawing conclusions

Of course, this is the thing. To look around without drawing conclusions brings a world of no-thing. There is no thing to see. The things are the conclusions. My experience of no-thing is indescribable in words or concepts, how could it be otherwise?

Since ...
by knabo
Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:48 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Got self...?
Replies: 60
Views: 8153

Re: Got self...?

So your questions are kind of a trick then? Clever.

Explain in detail what this illusion is and how it works...?

How would I know? Its an illusion. I can only make up some kind of story from an illusion perspective.

What pushed me across the line? Classic. What line? What pushed?

can you ...

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