Hello Vince,

Just spent six days in the hospital for what looks like diverticulitis. Sorry I wasn't able to post.
Regarding your most recent question:

Robert, is there an awareness that is aware of the ongoing process?

- No, there is no awareness that is aware because awareness is not an ...

Hi Vince,

..another question Robert.
Imyself wrote:
The term "experience" was used to mean "Life"… as in Life experiencing.
Could you please clarify what you means by "life", as in "life experiencing"?

- When I wrote "life experiencing" I was seeing it at once as a process and then also as an ...

Morning Vince,


A question from another guide;
You say "Looking at it now it seems the only thing that can be said from direct experience about this is that experience is experiencing."

My questions would be:
What is this experience that is experiencing?
Is there an 'experiencer' in direct ...

Hi Vince,

Haven't posted in a couple days, so I wanted to do that and see what's happening. I friended you on Facebook when we started the conversation several weeks ago. Just finished reading Eric Gross' book, Liberation From The Lie , and while visiting his FB page I noticed your name on the ...

Good Morning Vince,

The first question that arose was about the brain doing things. "so now its the brain that creates the illusion, that decides and controls" ?
It certainly makes more sense than the idea of a mythical 'Self' pulling the levers, doesn't it. But can you find the brain by directly ...

Hi Vince,


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 self and there never has been. Current science says that self is a construct that emerges from the activity of many areas in the brain.

2) "Describe ...

Good Morning Vince,

Experiences don't mean anything in, and of, themselves. They are the result of conditions. They may be showing you something (or not). Have you taken any meaning from them ?

- there have been plenty of experiences over the years that I had imagined were meaningful in some way ...

Hi Vince,
Another quick not while I'm working on the 6 questions. This just happened a little while ago while considering "no separate experiencer from the experienced. (only experiencing)":

There is seeing right here; everything appearing right here in this sight. All the sounds too. Everything ...

Hi Vince,
Just a quick check in. I'm working on the questions and I'll post as soon as it's done.

Thanks

Good morning Vince,

How did you go with the looking at the back of your hand exercise ?

- I hadn't noticed many of the fine details before. The longer and deeper I looked, the more the hand looked foreign, and oddly shaped. I have done this kind of looking, usually at my hand and fingers ...

Good morning Vince,

This post is the combined responses to 2 posts. Sorry about the length. I. Put them together because I didn't want to try keeping track of 2 separate threads.
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… isn't experiencing something that is being noticed as it happens ?

- yes

Imyself wrote ...

Hi Vince,

i would say that they are the same thing. Habits are conditioned responses. Are the arising of thoughts of a particular nature habit ? ..and have they been conditioned to be that way ?

- yes, I see that.

Imyself wrote:
How does what exists, experiences the world, and witnesses the ...

Yep, still working on replies from last post. I just got sidetracked.

Hi Vince,

A couple days ago my daughter and i had a conversation that ended with me saying "I hope you make the right choice."
I hesitated and rewrote the text a few times using the word "choice", before finally just going with it.
She and I have talked a number of times about the nature of self ...

Good Morning Vince,

Today's post is mostly semi-random thoughts that are less an attempt to explain things than an effort to see where i am in the process and where to look next.
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It is not a me controlling actions, thoughts, feelings, memories that arise, beliefs ...