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This is Bill Lawrence's husband . I went through Lu awhile back and l'm happy you have volunteered to guide Larry. I just wanted to say that was a really cool catch on perceiver and a great exercise, I can feel it too. It would be fun to know if you are a mathematician or software developer ...

Dear Vivien,
Can ‘ego’ be experienced? Does this word point to anything ‘real’?
No, just a concept for self, another concept. Only thoughts.
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No I, me, or self to be found, just the ...

Dear Vivien,
And is there such thing as ‘awareness’ or is ‘awareness’ just another mental label, a concept stick to the experiencing? Yes another label, a concept swallowed hook, line, and sinker. Just experiencing.

Has it been clearly seen that there has never been an ‘I’ that could control or ...

Dear Vivien,
Is there any proof other than content of thoughts that you had dinner last night? No. Only stuff with content attached, no pure experiencing. Like, the chicken is gone, must have eaten it. Who drank all the beer!

So there is something ‘outside’ of this present moment?
Where? And how ...

Dear Vivien,
What is time?
How time is experienced with the 5 senses?
Time is a thought and cannot be experienced with the 5 senses.
What is past and future?
How past or future is experienced with the 5 senses?
Past is a memory thought and future is also a thought and can't be experienced with ...

Dear Vivien,
If the ‘I’ is just a thought, then what is ‘past’?
The past is just a thought called memory.
Was the ‘body’ that is seen in the mirror the one that was born on a certain date?
Or is the ‘body’ that is being seen in the mirror, different to the ‘body’ that was born on a certain date ...

Dear Vivien,
Can it be known how tall the body is?
Does it have a weight or a volume of the body?

Is there a boundary between the body and the clothing?
Is there a boundary between the body and the chair?

In the actual experience does the body have a shape or a form?

Is there an inside or ...

Dear Vivien,
We are trying to separate thought content and what is actually happening.
Is there REALLY a pressure in the actual experience,
or is there only a pure sensation that is labelled by thought that this is a pressure?
No pressure in DE. It is just a thought labeling the type of sensation ...

Dear Vivien,
With eyes closed, put one of the hands onto the table. Pay attention only to the pure sensation.
Does the pure sensation itself suggest in any way that the hand is doing the touching? There is just a sensation of touching.
Does the pure sensation itself suggest in any way that there ...

Dear Vivien,
Now, can you physically grasp that image of a cup?
Can you pour tea into it?
Can you drink from it? In Reality? No physical touching, no pouring, no drinking. Not real.

Is there a ‘real’ cup or just an image of a cup?
Is there an appearing mental image?
Is the content of the mental ...

Dear Vivien,
Dear Bill,
So I look at a word and a meaning appears in my mind. Another word and another meaning, How is this known that “meaning appears in the mind”? By unexamined education, that's what I was taught. But now I would say the thought label containing past experiences, definition ...

Dear Vivien,
Seeing
Currently there are words on the screen being read. Go to the actual experience itself, and ignore the suggestion of thoughts.
What reads these words?
Is there anything that is reading, or reading is just happening? Oh I like this one, so repeatable. So I look at a word and a ...

Dear Vivien,
Seeing
Currently there are words on the screen being read. Go to the actual experience itself, and ignore the suggestion of thoughts.
What reads these words?
Is there anything that is reading, or reading is just happening? Oh I like this one, so repeatable. So I look at a word and a ...

Dear Vivien,
How the decision is made what to make a cup of tea or coffee?
Do ‘you’ choose putting or not putting milk into the tea (or coffee)? I make coffee for two each morning. So this part is pretty automatic.
Is there a moment of choice or it happens automatically? It just happens. I scoop ...

Dear Vivien,
Try it again. Ok, so it felt like there was some effort there until I changed raising my arm to raising my finger. I sat from 4 to 5 am working on this and could not sense anything before thinking.
What is this 'I' that is controlling the arm? There is no "I".
Can a controlling 'I ...