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

There is not now nor has there ever been a separate entity called self, i , me. And there never was. It's been a fiction. it's not real, doesn't exist, period end of story. I know this ...

Can friends be blamed for anything they do? :)

Ready for the final questions?

no, they cannot :) in the seeing of her story pattern there was this empathy because the same thing is seen here. :)

ok! READY!

What if I said it was? Would you believe me? And decide to drop no-self as nothing but another weird religious belief?

*I’d say you’ve been spending too much time with my little imaginary voice! Hahaha!
What’s there to ‘believe’? who is there to believe it? I’ve looked for this self and only ...

Cheryl, any doubts? Is anything missing? Was there ever a Cheryl?

any doubts... several times during these last weeks there has been the little voice saying 'what if this is also all some sort of mind trip? what if its some other form of brainwashing? but the little voice is mind and its become ...

So do thoughts ever point at the real world, or just at ideas about it?

no, no they can't point at the actual, only the actual is the actual/real. by their illusory nature they could never point at real, only at ideas abt reality. how could something born of illusion relate to or be realness ...

it's illusion in that it feels like something real is there to feel relief at the idea of no identity, but it's just thoughts and the content of thoughts isn't real, can't be experienced directly, nothing there.

"Look at any story of what has happened, any thought: what did you do five minutes ago? Then check, see if that thought has any sentience.

Does any thought of "Me" have sentience?"

no, no there's no sentience there, no sense of alive now-ness. no realness. a sort of dead thing. So no, story can't ...

I just saw the story and how I thought I absolutely KNEW the facts but later they were incorrect. my friend Melissa was just talking about mate (at their house this weekend) and I said that I'd never had it before what does it taste like?. and she said 'yes you did I made it one time' and I said I ...

in looking to see if there is a 'story of no-self' forming, is hard to tell. I don't think so but could be wrong.

"Maybe. Can there be a self without an imagined personal history? Is the story being told even factual? That is, could the same events be interpreted completely differently?"

I don't know, maybe there could be. I mean if someone had some sort of total amnesia it could appear that there would be ...

There is a subtle feeling of relief, but it’s just that the story of Cheryl feels like there is relief .
Can a story feel anything? (This can actually be looked at, in experience...)

in saying 'the story of Cheryl' there is recognition of the fiction of I. and a sense that all of the emotions ...

Wow, stepping away from spiritual teachings etc during this process, becoming quite clear how this whole new identity that didn't think it was an identity has formed. that of the spiritual seeker, i mean. but perhaps without this identity formation what is happening at this moment couldn't have ...

Can anything happen differently than it does?

*No, of course not. funny this question came today because everyone was offloading packages today from a UPS truck that was in total disarray and 3 hours later than usual with a trainee driving. The warehouse manager (who also happens to be a good ...

Inside the body. ("Is there an inside?" is another neat question, but let's look at this for now.) It can apply equally to other things as well - do any objects have selfs inside them?

there can never be a single source. in sitting direct experience indicates nothing. one could say well if there ...

If a single source for an event can't be found somewhere inside, look for other triggers.

Do you mean 'somewhere inside' as inside Cheryl? or inside the object or event?