Looking for a Buddhist Guide

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[Padmalaya]

What?

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Sorry. I thought I put a picture but it didn't work.
Look forward to hearing from you.


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[Padmalaya]

Person meditating! Understand. Tks. :-)

[Padmalaya]

Awareness is everywhere.

When I try to see my face or what others see the only way I can see anything is to use my imagination, otherwise I see nothing.

Pointing my index if ger out towards the world only makes me think I'm the same as the world the world is a part of mr and there's no separation. But I THOUGHT.

[Smudge, I heard of someone doing direct pointing somewhere else and I said to a friend, so how is so ans so doing, and she said shes finished, an so I said so she broke through, no, she said, her course is finished.

At this point fear arose in me and i thought: oh noooooo, what if my 'course' finishes and I haven't seen anything, will I be stuck I limbo? So I thought I'd ask you.

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Awareness is everywhere...I see nothing./quote]
YES!form is emptiness and emptiness is form! Simple as this!

But I THOUGHT.

fear arose

And part of this vivid emptiness this display arises: thoughts and feelings...as well as everything ! Should it not be so? Should thought and feeling not arise? The point is is there an I thinking/feeling? Look again, the answer is available always.

what if my 'course' finishes and I haven't seen anything, will I be stuck I limbo?

I will stay with you until you see. Its not a course to complete, its compete when you have no doubt you see....and Buddhists have a lot of doubt often because of the conditioning that seeing through self is an almost unattainable goal! Well we haven't found one yet have we.

Glad you are feeling better, so please answer my comments and we will see where else this pesky "I" might be hiding!
x

[Padmalaya]

Thank you for allaying my fears Smudge. Relaxation happens now.

Thoughts and feelings will and do arise and that's ok, but not with an I guiding them. Everything just happens.no matter what an 'I' can't be found here. The lawn will get mowed here today during which the search will continue for an I.

Love
P x

[smudge]

Great keep looking..&..

Lets look at body. Is there any sense of an I in the body, if so where?
Does the body experience sensations.

Only answer from DE please.

S x

[Padmalaya]

No sense I an in the body.
The body experiences sensations, yes, like heat, cold, pain, pleasure. The mind experienced irritation today from nowhere. Then there was quite strong sorrow, again out of nowhere.

No I to be found though.

P xx

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Look again, does the body really experience sensations or are there just sensations happening (with an idea of body parts) in DE? Try with eyes closed first. In the pointing exercise no actual face was found just an idea of one...keep looking.

Emotions happening and passing through hey..exactly, out of nowhere!

Sending love

[Padmalaya]

Ah yes, just , sensations happening with ideas of body parts.

Once I heard a frog croak!

Love

[smudge]

So in DE, can an I, an entity in control, be found anywhere? If so where?


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[Padmalaya]

No entity, i, can be found in body, feelings, thoughts, volitions, consciousness. Nowhere to be found. And yet there's a wall there making it hard to realise existentially.

:-|

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Describe this wail please. & How would 'realising' it differ from what is happening? X


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[Padmalaya]

The wall is a big stands there going 'yeah right, as if...it's doubt.
ReAlising it would be absolutely clear without a shadow of a doubt.

Tapia talk?