The Gate

I expect to be at peace with what is, not wanting a different experience than the experience now. I expect that thoughts "lose truth" and fear, shame and guilt decrease. Being at peace with current experience.

What do you find IN EXPERIENCE other than thoughts of me, that has an expectation, which is itself just another thought?

Is the thought of me different than the thought of expectation?

Does the "I" thought have any more weight, importance, or be any more "true" than the expectation thought?

IN EXPERIENCE I find seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling.

Hi again,

IN EXPERIENCE I find seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling.

Seeing: Does seeing need the character Sebastian to happen or is seeing just happening?
Hearing: Does hearing need the character Sebastian to happen or is hearing just happening?
Smelling: Does smelling need the character Sebastian to happen or is smelling just happening?
Feeling: Does feeling need the character Sebastian to happen or is feeling just happening?
Tasting: Does tasting need the character Sebastian to happen or is tasting just happening?

Look closely. Don't these things happen by themselves? Do they need "you" to do them?
Does your heart need "you" to pump?
Do your lungs need "you" you breathe?
Do you tell the body sweat?

Life did all of those things before "you" were created.
Life doesn't need "you" to happen, does it? Life doesn't need "Sebastian" to function, does
it?

Time to let go. Look closely.

Hi again,

IN EXPERIENCE I find seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling.

Seeing: Does seeing need the character Sebastian to happen or is seeing just happening?
Hearing: Does hearing need the character Sebastian to happen or is hearing just happening?
Smelling: Does smelling need the character Sebastian to happen or is smelling just happening?
Feeling: Does feeling need the character Sebastian to happen or is feeling just happening?
Tasting: Does tasting need the character Sebastian to happen or is tasting just happening?

Look closely. Don't these things happen by themselves? Do they need "you" to do them?
Does your heart need "you" to pump?
Do your lungs need "you" you breathe?
Do you tell the body sweat?

Life did all of those things before "you" were created.
Life doesn't need "you" to happen, does it? Life doesn't need "Sebastian" to function, does
it?

Time to let go. Look closely.

Hi again,

Tell me about control.

Hi again,

Nice start. Intellectual understanding comes first. Now let's put it to the test. First of all, don't think of control as control. That always implies or contains a doer. From now on, the question is only action or reaction. Action is an act of will undertaken as a primal mover. Reaction is a secondary movement as a response to action from life. Action is control, reaction is not. From now on, stop at various moments during the day and ask the question, "Is action happening according to "my" own free will, or is there simply reaction going on to what life has presented either in this moment, or some obligation presented in the past but not yet acted upon yet.

Notice every morning when you open your eyes, life is already ahead of you and in your face demanding that you act to survive or else. Pay close attention to the demands of the game in every moment. Notice that even when "you" think you have out-witted it, it has still won, because its only object is to compel you to react.

So here is the exercise. Bring me one example of something "you" did of your own free will and not as a reaction to an action initiated by life, and by life, I mean life as defined in the broadest possible terms.

So here is the exercise. Bring me one example of something "you" did of your own free will and not as a reaction to an action initiated by life, and by life, I mean life as defined in the broadest possible terms.

Hi again,

Explain.

Hi again,

Explain.

Hi again,


Your answers are tending more towards the theoretical than the practical. Let me be more specific. Name one ACTION that the body/mind complex takes during the day that is proof that "Sebastian" performed an act of free will. This could be something as simple as getting a glass of water, going to the bank, watching T.V., or anything else.