Hi Gk,

How are you? Have you been busy or have you been having difficulty with the exercise? Is There anything I can do to help?

Ben

Wonderful!

Sounds are heard, sensations are felt and when poked with questions like "who's hearing?", "who's seeing", thought assertions like "I am hearing", "i am seeing" soon appear from one's mental narrative.
So can you see that this experience occurs either with the narrative or without the ...

Hello Gk,

Yes that's true.

So just to make things clearer can you use the quote button in order for me to know what you are referring to? I guess that you are referring to;

All there is and all there has ever been is sound, colour, smell, taste, sensation overlaid with thought.

We can work ...

Wonderful!

Great answers. Looks like there is true focus for the inquiry!

What is the reaction to the following statements:

There is no "you" and never had been.
All there is and all there has ever been is sound, colour, smell, taste, sensation overlaid with thought.
There is no you to experience ...

Ok Lovely. Thanks Gk!
So, its great that you have read text on this subject before so you have had some exposure to the sort of thing that we look at here but it is extremely important that you now make this inquiry a fresh one from your own perspective. Please try not to refer back to what you have ...

Hello gkspp! My name is Ben and I am happy to be your guide. What would you like me to call you?

This should be a focused inquiry so please try and post everyday if you can. No pressure but this process is more effective if you have a certain level of commitment. I am in England so potentially we ...

Hi Pablo,

If the 'story/ego/mind' is 'a concept, a label a thought', how is it able to do anything?, would it not mean that is has an inherent existence, that it has control?

From what I understand; It doesn't do anything apart from experience. It is a point of reference to which life infers it ...

Hi Pablo,

I'd like to talk about those points you've fed back;


What is aware, what places restrictions, what should be free?
The assumed self places restrictions which is limiting. With the acceptance of no self there is awareness of the story/the assumed self but only as that. The thought ...

Hi Pablo,

I'd just like to address the further enquiry;
6) Do you decide, intend, choose, control events in Life? Do you make anything happen? Give examples from your experience.
The mind likes to think that we are controlling life and making decisions but there is something happening first ...

Hi Pablo,

Final bits now;

5) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you see?
I saw weeks ago but the thing was at that point I didn't think it was profound enough so I didn't make it so much of a big deal. The bit that I got wrong was that I assumed that once I saw it would stop me ...

Hi Paulo,

I've been a bit busy this weekend so not had much time to respond but I am ready to address the next questions;

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.

Things feel completely the same for me ...

Hi Pablo,

I would like to take these questions as I feel the need to take them on. This first one;
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
Contrary to all years of conditioning to believe what the mind claims, upon looking for ...

Hi Pablo,

Have you seen through the illusion of self?
Without overthinking, analysing or expecting anything - yes, I have. I had ages ago but I was expecting something ridiculous. I am curious to discover how this will develop over time.

Are there questions that you'd like to ask me to check ...

It has altered my perspective but I was hoping for more of a solution! hahah! nevermind!

At the end of the day - I was assuming that there would be a shift and it would ready help my perspective on life's problems... expectations...