1. He has not yet answered the question 'what are you responsible for?'.
2. "Whatever is responsible must be genes and how one's brain is set up": does this imply a personal responsibility? Yes or No.

As I see it there is a strong feeling of being responsible for actions and thoughts, but as I ...

5) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work? What are you responsible for? Give examples from recent experience.
Seems like spontaneous happenings in the brain...followed by a belief in a self doing it...a thought "I did this" and ...

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

The process was very slow for me and the "final" seeing through very subtle...but I notice that thought have less importance to me now. The self is seen to be a sort of thought mechanism ...

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever?
No, there are just thoughts, feelings and other impressions that come together and are acted out spontaneously.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it ...

Hi Bill, I write back soon...work is demanding my full attention for two more Days. Love the questions! Thanks!

Thansk Bill for all the patience.
It's beginning to sink in.
All the accounts of enlightenment that I've read have undouptedly made me expect something more. It is a little dissapointing for the mind that this is it. But I can see there is no further to go (only if 'I' listen to the mind again ...

Hi Bill,
Thoughts tell a story about a ‘you’ being stuck, but I can’t see that. There is only seeing. There is never not seeing.
Yes, I keep seeing THIS and then listen to the thoughts telling me something else. I'm getting abit tired of it. I don't even know who they talk to anymore...only that ...

Hi Bill,
It is not the "I" that is intention or volition.
What is this intention other than another thought?
Is intention an entity by itself?

I can see intention is just another thought and I cant find an entity in intention.

There may be a sense that there's an 'intender'. You can't shake it ...

Hi Bill,

Do you feel there is a self that is doing, feeling, thinking?

No it seems to just appear. Don't know the next thought. But the seeming volition confuses me...an intention can bring about a certain thought. BUT...it might not belong to a person, to a me in here, though! That's what I'm ...

Look at what went on prior to the apparent choice and see if you can
find what appeared to make it. How was it made?

I can see that that some outer stimuly or a thought or feeling trigger thoughts which appear sponanoeusly...but when I sit down and really decide to think a certain thought it ...

Hi Bill,

I somehow divided up self and Life...but Everything must be Life...what else could it be?!

Yes, that's clear, everything must be the same essence or 'material'.

But, here's what seems to confuse me...I can't find a me or self in here, but, the fact that I seem to be able to make a ...

Hi Bill, and Stuart and Diana,

I'd love to continue, especially if you think I'm pretty close. Thought I was stuck!
I had some busy weeks so I couldn't reply every day. Better now, and even if busy I make sure I keep replying!

I can see there is no permanent state...even that which I thought was ...

Hi,
Again I had a small 'opening' the other day...Think I was going over something Diana was saying. Suddenly there was no self to liberate, no one was bound and I remember thinking 'how easy this is...how could I not see it (although I have seen it a few times before...that's why I started a thread ...

Hi Diana and Stuart, thanks for comming in and helping me!

I am somewhat surprised at the simplicity of this and the mind still want some shift to happen or a realization deeper than just seeing that the thought me isn't who I am. This is why the mind looks for a state, for that permanent 'thing ...

So Henrik, tell me, what is it that you need to do, if anything? You feel you've 'got it', then lose it.... Could this be what life is? Do you really think you can capture a state, and have it last forever?

I've been looking into this these last few days...and, no, I can't capture a state and ...