Hi, oh great, thanks for all your help. I hope that you are and continue to be well. I am not on facebook, and will be fine. Again thank you so much. Much love, Ruby xxxx

Hi, Carrie, i hope all is well with you. I am feeling a bit better day by day. Here are my answers to your questions.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

No, that is very, very clear,

2) Explain in detail what the illusion ...

Hi, Carrie, Ok thanks will consider the questions and get back to you tomorrow. Take care, Ruby

Hi Carrie, feeling a bit better today. Just a bad virus, according to Doc.

I can say that yes, it is clear that 'I' is imagined, that there is no separation and that a separate self is an illusion. So YES, it feels very clear. A shift happened around the time of the dream. I was trying too hard in ...

Hi, Carrie, sorry have had a rough day. Managed to get to the doctor, nothing serious, bad virus, rest and fluids etc.
Sorry not to have kept up our agreement. I am hoping to write tomorrow, best wishes, Ruby

Dear Carrie. I have continued to feel that freedom today. I am going to let that experience be, unfold, and see, over the next day, if any questions arise, or areas of unclarity.

My present experience is that the I is imagined, illusory, and any notion of a separate is a thought, is an illusion ...

Hi, Carrie, I am still ill, probably a chest infection, but I have remembered when awake, sometimes, to look into my experience.

Have a look.... What's happening here?
Can a thought seduce you and draw you in?
Can a thought do anything?

Thought is just thought, so it can't do anything, it is ...

Hi, Carrie thanks for your responses and questions, and for the extra bit on expectations. I am pretty ill today, so I will leave answering until tomorrow. There was a veritable tsunamiof thoughts wasn't there, I blame it on the fever! :-)
best wishes to you, and hope that you are well, and get back ...

What are the ingredients of expectation? What's it made up of?

Hi, Carrie my cold is worse so I need to do lots of sleeping again today. Yes, expectations seem to have arisen with a vengeance, with some doubt, - I have been looking for over a week, and see there is no owner, chooser that is ...

Hi Carrie. Glad you are ok, yes I was tucked up in bed, not least because I have come down with a cold, :-(. So that is where I have spent most of today, with lots of snoozing and not a lot of looking!

I did explore fear a bit more, as fear is arising when I look. I can experience the sensations ...

Hi, Carrie, not heard from you, is everything ok. Hope to hear from you tomorrow. take care, Ruby

Hi, Carrie, thanks so much for your reply, which I found so helpful and encouraging - and challenging as well. You were up late!

So - when I am resting in the here and now experience of sensations there is 'boundarylessness' and this is no self? and when there is fixation on a 'locus that is me ...

Hi Carrie, I am so sorry I don't seem to have worked out the quote function, - I have tried highlighting text, pressing the quote function, (as above) but can't quite see how that becomes part of my reply. Oh dear.

I am looking into 'this locus of experience that is me' and i seem to be a bit ...

Hello Ruby,

Thank you for your answers...

this locus of experience that is me - is in awareness. or is awareness

So, 'you' are awareness or in awareness...? Let's look at this....

Are you 'awareness' or 'in awareness'.....? or is awareness just happening?

Does seeing, hearing, touching etc ...

Hi Carrie, thanks for the comments and questions. I am sorry, there is no way I can answer those today, but I do have some time tomorrow that I can give to Looking - so I will post tomorrow. best wishes Ruby