Thanks Cody!

2:) Separate self is an illusion that appears. It left unobserved it seems necessary for operating in and dealing with the living of life. Ultimately life is just happening, or appearing to happen. When does the illusion start? When singularity becomes duality. Or even further back, when nothing ...

Hit me with them. We'll see what comes up :)

1:) No, no-thing. It's all an illusion. It never was. Memories of, appearances of, lots of pretenders, all part of the illusion. All just thoughts, thoughts just concepts. No self to be found in any of it in any way shape or form.

2:) There isn't much to say. Again, there were a lot of pretenders ...

Can you actually find any of what you wrote in direct experience?

In Direct Experience, no, there is nothing to experience. Thoughts are happening, but like you said, even this most grand of them can't be found, directly experienced. The most that experience can be reduced to, is the sense of "I ...

Hit submit too fast. That should read:

1:) Direct experience of mind is that mind is like a clearing house, where thoughts arise and are experienced. As long as there are going to be thoughts, there is going to be mind to host them.
2:) "Vibrations" are fluctuations in the structure and texture of ...

Direct experience of mind is that mind is like a clearing house, where thoughts arise and are experienced. As long as there are going to be thoughts, there is going to be mind to host them.
3:)"Vibrations" are fluctuations in the structure and texture of what is experienced. A change in the state ...

I feel that it has been seen. I think that up until now I had had an expectation that "seeing" would mean a shock and an immediate (permanent) state of no-mind.

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

It is nowhere. It is just a concept. Anywhere that I look, the last vestiges of self are disappearing. Zak still exists. Events are happening, things are being experienced, but in any dark shadow that has a light put upon it, the self isn't there.

Much has been falling away in the past few days.

I see this point. Even all thoughts about it, are just concepts. They do arise in mind, but like any thought are just hollow. They are just labels.

In your first example, of course the actual water would be the choice. The labels are just labels. They are real in your example, because they are in ...

All day there were many different emotional scenarios. There is no self there. There is the emotion, there is certainly a feeling happening. Today a situation occurred which brought up the same strong emotion that I described in an earlier post. Immediately the assumption was there, that there was ...

Just like the previous question...There is walking...There is no controller. The illusion of control that is assumed to be real if attention isn't brought to it fully; it seems as if there is someone typing, thinking, talking, walking, etc..

This has been experienced when walking, talking, driving ...

If I stay with the question, and really observe what is happening, then no, there is no I experiencing. There is the experience, hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, touching is happening but there is no I that is doing anything, it seems present as an awareness of experience however. Something ...

"I" points to the mere feeling or naked experience of separate existence which defaults to being intertwined or having ownership with the physical sense of presence because for as long as memory serves and for all practical wordly purposes they have been connected. By default I am giving the feeling ...

Hi Cody,
The first thing that arrises is a challenge. When I first read the question this morning there arose a sarcastic sounding voice that asserts it's existence and challenges proof to the contrary. Immediately, even concurrently to that, there was a sense, an awareness, that the sarcastic voice ...