5) Do you decide, intend, choose, control events in Life? Do you make anything
happen? Give examples from your experience

There is no 'I' to choose or control events. The 'I' is created in thought as a character that makes decisions. But decision making happens without a self, and the thought 'I ...

3) How does it feel to see this? What is the difference from before you started this dialogue? Please report from the past few days.

Life has become easy with compared to how things were before the dialogue started. It's too soon to say exactly what the long term effects are, but it seems like ...

You mean doesn't right??
Yes!


1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
There is no 'I'. There never was.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience ...

So is there any doubt that no self exists and yet this whole display of phenomena play out mysteriously on automatic? Hows it feeling?
There is no doubt that a self exists. The 'I' that keeps turning up in thoughts does not really exist.

As for how it feels, there are moments of peace and at ...

Lets look a choice now. Is there a Choicepoint, a magical place where the apparent “Self” can choose between this and that? Take two objects/possibilities, of which you might ordinarily choose either e.g. coffee or tea, blue pen or black pen, salt and pepper, then sit and see if you can find the ...

There are unpleasant thoughts/feelings going on right now so this is a good chance to look.

There are unpleasant sensations in the body asking with thoughts that say "I'm stressed out".

Looking for the 'I' who is suffering/stressed:
none found. Even in the midst of painful & unpleasant experiences ...

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Are there 2 things here, walking, and awareness of it? Answer from DE please walking and awareness are concepts. In DE, there is just one thing - so there's no distinction between walking and awareness of it.

Can I check in with you Till, how are you doing with this process, its hard ...

Did 'you'? or was belief just happening?
Can a thought do anything?
'I' didn't. It's just that thoughts occurred and the realization of no-self was not remembered.

Get up... walk slowly...
is there a controller that controls walking?
or is there just walking

There is no sign of a controller ...

does suffering = Till? or does suffering = thoughts and sensations.
Set your phone to go off at regular times throughout the day a reminder to look.


That turned out to be a good idea. Here's a report on one occasion when the phone went off:

There was suffering going on at this point in time. I ...

There was definitely suffering today. I can only speak about this in retrospect as there was no seeing going on (I did not remember to 'look' )when there was suffering.

As an example, I was working on a project at work and things were not going well. There were many thoughts along the lines "This ...

Take a look, is suffering anymore than thoughts and sensations? Please share some examples of this mix, and then check is there an I having the thoughts and sensations or are they just doing a dance on their own?


Being a lazy Sunday, there wasn't much suffering going on today. Things might be ...

Yep, is this not supposed to happen or are you just saying?

I was just explaining what happens.

Spend the day particularly noticing the place of thoughts in the whole display of experience and each time check if thoughts are just thoughts about a you OR if is all real, including a self. It's ...

Keep doing this as you go about your day (2 way looking). Its a literal seeing not a 'sense of'. Nothing this way, everything that way. Kinda throws everything on its head doesn't it? The story of a separate I this side and objects thats side, Look, is there any separation between the experience ...

Hi,
I've been tied up at work - but I've been following your suggestion - I will post late today or in the morning tomorrow my time.

I ask again, please DO the 2 way looking and give full description of what is found.

I think I missed the point about the 'think' part. This time, no thinking and just looking ( which is what you wanted me to do in the first place I think).
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The fingers, the computer screen and the far side of ...