Ok Claire I'd like to ask you the questions we ask all..
Some call these the 'final questions' but I think that's a misnomer.
There's no final anything :)

Let's go ahead with the these.. if anything is left we haven't touched on, it will come up.
Please give each your full attention, take your ...

What is seeking answers? and to what?

Sorry missed this part. I realised it is my mind still seeking for MORE. I've nipped that in the bud and just being at the moment. Life will unfold as it is meant to. There is no hurry :)

Hello Claire,


All the little doubts/questions that I had surrounding "I" some I knew and some that came from you, that I didn't know - have been answered. I guess now I am seeking answers beyond what brought me here.
What is seeking answers? and to what?

It's funny you ask this because last ...

Hi Claire

The question about seeking is solely pertaining to this spiritual pursuit.
Do you feel like you are still seeking answers? or expectations? to what brought you here...


Have you noticed that what happens, happens? That there is no control? What is breathing the body?
What is beating ...

Hello Claire

You are doing very well with this... I'd like to ask some more questions of you.
It might be I change gears a little and get into more of a questions only mode.
This Looking is done always in the right here and now. If there is a key, that is it.
It's not in thinking about it or ...

A little koan some find helpful:

...its a very simple thing that needs to be resolved..
There is this thought, I,... and once you see that I is just a thought
And you see that thought itself does not think
It clicks!
Its very very simple.

Beautiful :)

Hi Bill :)

So can we agree that we've established that although there appears
to be a thinker, a 'one' who thinks... its really more true to say that
thinking just seems to happen?

Yes indeed we can agree.



Do you see how literally all thoughts are stories?
We see, a label is put on what we ...

Hi Claire

Liberation is not a thought, a feeling or a state.
Its really so ordinary that we have almost totally missed it.
I can't convince you of it, in fact the only way I can help is to point you
in the right direction to look so you can see it for yourself.
You have to do the LOOKING.
it ...

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Claire, what if there was no need to edit or control anything?
What would happen if things were just left to be as they are?

That would be freedom. Relief. Peace.
If things were left to be as they are, meaning allowing this stream of thoughts without getting caught in them? Or allow myself to ...

Ok, I've been looking for who is really in control of my body. At times it seems like it's me/my mind. I think I'll get up and clean up and I do. At other times, I get a sensation here or there that I didn't make happen. Then I go back to well I am not my mind, I'm not in control of my mind so how ...

oops, i wrote this in word first to not lose it and didn't copy my first lines which answered your questions. So here they are...

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your response :) I guess what I meant by feeling removed was feeling removed from my thoughts in a sense. By just simply stating to myself what I'm ...

Yes all these thoughts 'seem' like there is a me who is in charge.
But if we look very closely, can we find this I, this me?
Is it anything more than just another thought?
We perceive things; labeling happens immediately, and then the stories start.
It feels like the I is the controller.
But is it ...

Hi Claire
Great job of looking here. You're very thorough in your descriptions.
After ahwile its usually seen that 'looking' is always happening, and it can be noticed or not.

Hi thanks :) Yes, I've been pushing on with the noting hoping that it will become natural and a habit eventually. I like ...

Thanks Bill. Just watched the video again. I've also been doing the mentally noting for a while so I can switch to looking quite well. So let's do this...

Can you look carefully and tell me where thoughts arise, for you?

mmm, inside my head - like in the middle somewhere - behind my eyes but ...

Ok so since I paid attention to the thoughts... I've been feeling the emotions the thoughts cause :/ Previous to the discovery that I wasn't my thoughts, I'd been micro managing them so well that like I said in the opening post, the majority of the day I felt great emotions by only allowing myself ...