Hi ES

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

I, me, self, Rosa is a construct. No, it does not and cannot and never existed as a separate entity. Nor will it in the future. Future, another concept. There is awareness. Nothing ...

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Interesting to watch the Youtube clip again. I watch this differently now. The detail I did not fully appreciate when watching it the first time is that each ball really just follows a straight line. Always the same line. A thought is just what it is, a feeling just the same. In the ...

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RosaRohlfing wrote:
During a working day, I slip into the ‘I’ function and the ‘I and other’ view.

What does this mean? What happens?

There are different days at work. Generally work is about ensuring mine and others safety throughout a work day. There is far more to it, but lets just ...

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Making decisions:
During a working day, I slip into the ‘I’ function and the ‘I and other’ view.
There is an awareness of choosing the bigger view. Settling into noticing the fullness of awareness, and experiencing again that everything is part of the flow. Its a moving in and out of that ...

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Thanks very much.

I have been looking into the decision making process and looked regarding the observer and will continue.

I'll be writing more tomorrow.

Rosa

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So, at any time, is Rosa anything other than a thought?

Ok, I think I have understood something over the past two days. Shifts happen.
The experience of thoughts or appearances as a whole are like water in a stream. Without water, no stream. So without awareness no thoughts… An appearance ...

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Thanks.

I will be writing in detail tomorrow.

Rosa

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RosaRohlfing wrote:
I can’t in a relaxed fashion say that Rosa is just a thought.

Why?

Of cause, there are times when I can see that Rosa is just a thought. At other times this goes out of focus and needs to be re-seen. It’s a partial seeing.

What is this "bumpy road"? What is going on ...

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Over the weekend and also now, the absence of Rosa remains. When asking the question, who is Rosa, it becomes quite strenuous to answer this. I can’t in a relaxed fashion say that Rosa is just a thought. I have to jump from one conclusion to the next and nothing of that is Rosa. Rosa is an ...

Hi ES

Thanks, I'll continue with the statements and your suggestions.
Actually, I'll be away over the weekend and will write on Monday again.

Rosa

Hi ES

Thanks. Have read statements several times.

Settling into the looking experience. There is an experience of a space, light, the centre of the space is where I am. Body experiences, thoughts. Staying with the spaciousness, all impressions of images, thoughts float like a stream out.
A body ...

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Thanks for your post.
I won't be able to answer the statements today, will write more tomorrow.

Rosa

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Today, spending a bit of time with the background experience.
It’s nothing I could call me. It’s an image, a boundary, images come up in front of it and go again, and the background seems the same, unchanged. Earlier when just staying with the background, it vanished and an open space ...

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Ok. Thanks.

The idea of resistance or anxiety leading to a resistance is interesting.
When looking, first there are thought, physical sensation, the whole lot. There is also a background. Paying attention to the background, the ‘whole lot’ disappears like a film image.
The background does ...

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Interesting response.

Resistance as ‘sense of self’?
I guess that ‘resistance’ could be used for a lot of people joining this forum. If we all knew how to ‘do it’, there would not be resistance.

I’d call it anxiety. Maybe a resistance out of fear of possibly being overwhelmed. That’s an ...