Sure! Take your time :)

Hi Michael,

How are you doing?

I hope everything is ok :)

Thanks

L

Hi Michael,
I am finally back from the trip, sorry again for the delay :)

l; no self at least.
Do you mean that you feel you need to protect your seeing of no-self?

You worry that when you loose yourself that you will loose control and will no longer be able to 'act the part'. You worry about ...

Sorry Michael, I am on a job trip in this says.
I'll get back to you tonight or tomorrow in the worst case scenario.

Thanks for your patience
L

When I look and see what I truly am, which seems to be everything

Are you everything?


develop a quality that seems like a self again. Its funny why it keeps trying to claim the openness....

Is this a problem?



Thats a bit scary!!

What is there to be protected?

The realisation can ...

I should add one doubt in thought seems to nullify everything I said above.

Can you please elaborate on this?
What do you mean?

Have a doubt any power? Can a doubt change how things are?

Thanks
L

I am happy to hear that Michael :)

How is life in these days? How is the experience of moving through day to day experience?
Is something different?

Thanks

L

I would have to agree with you. The idea of it feels very alien to me. In truth the self for me now seems like a memory; as in it seems to have melted away massively into something that is much vaster. When you are in the vastness there are no such question as this self issue. For me to know what ...

Seeing through a sensation is when I just see it for what it is; it takes on an impersonal quality when directly looking.

Can you do that? Can you see the sensation for what it is, without the thoughts saying that the sensation is you?
If you focus on the sensing, rather than to the sensation as ...

I am actually imagining it. The thought is the sensation. It is unbelievable that most people in the world are buying into something that is not even there; they are a living idea. I need to see through this sensation.

Are you imagining the sensantion or is the sensation there and thoughts say ...

Hi Michael,

So some thoughts, sensations and feelings have a self quality. The self quality has a constricted feel to it when compared to wholeness.

This self quality, this 'sense of self', I guess it is a sensation.

Now, try this:
Close eyes and imagine you are holding an object, let's say a ...

Let's put aside the awareness question for a moment, we'll return there soon.

I can get sucked into feeling
What do you mean by that? Is 'you' getting sucked? or is there just 'getting sucked' as a movement as all the others?

I have to admit that it does feel like somebody is shifting focus ...

Hi Michael,

it seems to be that they are just arising out of nothing.

Are you sure? Are you completely clear about this?

focus on say my legs and bottom

What is focusing? Can you find something that direct or control the attention?

Thanks
L

Hi Michael,

Great job, indeed!

I'd suggest you to repeat the exercise as you go through everyday life and you feel identification. Just see what is a story and what is not and take a step away from the story. We all feel the identification every now and then out from habit. I feel it is a gradual ...

Hi Michael,

I just hope I am exactly taking this from direct experience and not just creating a concept about thought. What is your view on what direct experience is and how one knows that is where they are coming from??


Ok first of all, let's clear this off :)

There are raw experiences ...