Hi Jonathan,

2 ) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. Describe it fully as you see it now.

The illusion of separate self consists in believing that concepts, feelings, thoughts... are actually detached from the world ...

Hello Jonathan,

These past two days have been charged with emotion, and it only got freed tonight.



Was that due to these further questions Tristan?

No, it was anger which had been accumulated over a month and a half, and eventually came to the surface. It has nothing to do with these ...

Hello Jonathan,

These past two days have been charged with emotion, and it only got freed tonight. I was reading but could not answer until now, sorry.

But then in Direct Experience, hearing, touch, (etc) and looking at thoughts or feelings coming and going, is 'self' or 'I' found anywhere in ...

Good morning Jonathan,

'I' can now know that the self is an illusion. Thoughts going through a body do know that the self is an illusion.


So you are saying that you had written this by accident and that what you mean to say is ' 'I' can not know that the self is an illusion?'

Yes, I wanted to ...

Hello Jonathan,

'I' can now know that the self is an illusion. Thoughts going through a body do know that the self is an illusion.


If this is taken literally, you seem to be saying that Tristan can 'know' that the self is an illusion?

But how can Tristan 'know' this? Can an illusion 'know' an ...

Hello !

Thank you for those questions.

Now that I know that the self is an illusion, I will try to live accordingly, and this behaviour will certainly strengthen the presence of this truth.
How can an 'I' ' know' that the self is an illusion? In what sense can it be known?

''I will try to live ...

Hello Jonathan,

Alright, i will be checking my mails regularly.

Best regards,

Tristan

Hello Jonathan,

The body appears to be associated with thoughts but are all thoughts 'experienced inside the body'?


No, some thoughts are not experience inside the body. I reread mysef, and at the time I was placing thoughts 'inside' the body.
Now I would rather say that some thoughts create ...

Hello Jonathan,

4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?


The last bit that pushed me over, was realizing that thoughts placing themselves inside a body was an illusion.

5) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it ...

Hello Jonathan,

Alright, it's cool then :)

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


There has never been a separate entity called : 'self', 'me', 'i'. Any kind of concept such as these are mental construction.

2) Explain in ...

Hello Jonathan,

But is it possible for thoughts to continue to create the illusion of a 'self'?

No, thoughts cannot create the illusion of a 'self' anymore, there is no reversal.

How about problems? Can thinking create a sense of 'problems' ? If so, what's to stop such ideas from seeming to be ...

Hi Jonathan,

I still got into a park today.

There was a lot of different plants, animals, and insects.
Everything was moving, everything was new, everything was living.
It was clear that I was a part of this whole I was witnessing, there was no separation between the world and 'me'.

At this ...

Dear Jonathan,

I could not go out in a park today. I will try again tomorrow.

Best regards,

Tristan

Hi Jonathan,

I will go out in a park tomorrow afternoon. I will keep you in touch.

Best regards,

Tristan

Hello Jonathan,

How about 'mind'? Is there such a thing as mind found in direct experience? Is there a thinker of thoughts?


There is no thinker of thoughts, there is not 'mind'.

So, is there any 'self' here, now, at all? Right here, right now? Is there a 'me' 'doing' anything, causing ...