Hi Xain,

Many thanks for your feedback which I found very helpful and so wonderfully clear.

When I use the term "selfing" I mean the process or story that thought makes from experience creating an illusion of I. On that note I for me is a thought of I - there is no I except a thought of I. When I ...

4) Could you explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. Describe it as fully as can after your own realisation.

Thought arises, comments, associations, memories, desires, stories, recognising. Thoughts arise that they are "me ...

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No. There is experience that arises. Thought labels experience and makes it mine or I. But I or mine can't be found. It never existed.Thoughts arise that say I did exist. Investigaion arises ...

Thanks! No there's no more questions at the moment. Ready to move on to the next stage.

Hi Xain

I hope you had a good weekend. Thanks for your pointers. I would say that it is a thought of 'Jason' or perhaps 'Jasoning' arises might be another way of putting it. As you say my believing in the Jasoning and the thought of 'me' beleiving in the jasoning isn't a problem.There is no Jason ...

Through investigation their is a deepening realisation that the separate self is a thought. Thoughts arise and I arises through habit and then investigation sees that I is an idea and there is just openness, spaciousness and clarity. The thought of a separate Jason here right now stilll arises and ...

To expand on "There is sense based experience which thought labels as my body" what actually happens is there is a thought that I gets up in the morning but when this is investigated for truth of this thought there is sense experience of warmth, touch, movement. Thought labels this "body" but its a ...

Thanks for the pointers.Very helpful.
In terms of a body looking at the laptop - there is sense based expereince which thought labels as my body, there is visual experience which thought labels as laptop and my laptop.
Thoughts arise which thought labels as my comments and the thought arises that I ...

Yes experiencing arises and then shortly after I label these experiences mine. I can't find the I that has these thoughts other than the belief that I am having these thoughts. I don't know where thoughts come from, I creates a speculation that they come from memory or from fear or from desire etc ...

Yes doing the exercise with hearing and touch is the same as seeing. there is sounds/felt sensations that get labeled and there is the thoughts that I am hearing/feeling. But when I look for the I that is hearing/feeling I can't find it anywhere. What makes the body mine? I can't find anything other ...

There is a sense of looking at the letters on the screen and making meaning out of them. Labels come up that make sense of the letters/words. There is the thought that there is an I that is understanding the meaning of the labels. There is thought that refers the labels to a sense of I and I feels ...

Moving deeper into the inquiry. I can't find the I that is making the choices. My hand moved and after thought came in and labeled it that I did it. I feel tension and frustration because it doesn't make sense. I don't know who the me is that I thought was doing it. I can't find it and this goes ...

Hi Xain

Hope you are having a good weekend.

Interesting exercise about control. At first I felt certain that I was deciding to lift my right arm and then my left. I saw how my thought of choice chose right and then I lifted my right arm. But then I inquired more deeply, also bearing in mind my ...

Hi xain
I'm happy to work on the stuff. I await ur guidance. Hope ur well.
J

Yes I mean mental commentary, thoughts popping up, commentary, comparison etc when I wake in the morning. I am aware of my sense experience when I wake, my body, my room and my bed etc. There is a sense of me making choices to get up and get dressed etc.