Hi Bananafish!
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever?
No there isn't, there never was.
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.
For the last few years, me was the victim of random meaningless agony and suffering, me was trying to end and survive through various compensating concept of achievement and accomplishing material and spiritual goals,but these are conceptual stories about what happen, the suffering the victim the me the no me are product of conceptualizing,
And I can see the same about every thought.
3) How does it feel to see this?
What is the difference from before you started this dialogue? Please report from the past few days
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There is a sense of transparency, feeling and thought are wavering in nothingness, but it is not permanent, but it is unfolding, there is aloofness to the stream of thoughts, there is no longer holding to or great distinguishing between concepts.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
Some sort of netiNeti - like mantra has arisen spontaneously
Consistent respond to every single thought which is "how is that a problem".
A lot of hidden thoughts and beliefs has been unraveled.
Me and no me are both concepts, so me is not what I believed it to be.
5) a) Describe decision, intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work? Give an example from your own recent experiences to how things happens and how things work.
They are just concepts trying to capsulate what happens that is what are to me now.
b) What are you responsible for?
Since there is no actual separate self there is no responsibility for any separate one.
c) Give examples from your own recent experiences to how all this works.
I don't wanna give labels and conceptualized theories about how all this works.
6) Anything to add?
Is this free fall going to stop,I feel like trying to conceptualize a problem, but how is that a problem anyway, freedom is sweet but terrifying.