Good morning
I am glad to read your words. Let things fall their way.
Let me know of any lasting doubt about the illusion of a separate self.
If there is no doubt I will give you the final questions.
Best for you
Liberation Unleashed
Re: Liberation Unleashed
Hi
Here are the final questions. Ponder on each of them and give separate answers.
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
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.
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.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
5) Describe decision,
intention,
free will,
choice and control.
Give examples from experience.
What makes things happen? How does it work?
What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.
6) Anything to add
Best for you
Here are the final questions. Ponder on each of them and give separate answers.
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
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.
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.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
5) Describe decision,
intention,
free will,
choice and control.
Give examples from experience.
What makes things happen? How does it work?
What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.
6) Anything to add
Best for you
Re: Liberation Unleashed
Will write tomorrow. Thank you.
Re: Liberation Unleashed
Good morning
Take your time for it.
Best wishes
Take your time for it.
Best wishes
Re: Liberation Unleashed
Hello,
1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
There is no separate self. There never has been. It was an illusion.
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.
The illusion of separate self is just an idea of an internal entity that takes credit and fosters the notion of something separate from the brain, and body senses. Before, there was a belief in a separate self that acted as an administrator of thinking, doing, and anything else. The belief began by believing thoughts generated by the ego until it was difficult to discern where thoughts were generated from and how thoughts were just a mechanism for labeling. Now, it is very clear that all illusion does come from thoughts and there is no separate self. It was and is fictiious.
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.
This feels truly liberating and there is sense of awe around how it was possible to be programed and curiosity around other aspects of the truth of life, yet undiscovered. Before beginning this dialouge, there was just intellectual knowledge of the no self and no fundamental or deep knowing of the truth. In the last few days, there has been a type of stabilization with this deep knowing. Life is as normal as it was before this shift and thoughts still happen as they were before, but the belief in them or attachment is dissolving. It is very easy to disengage with thoughts and know that there is no doer, thinker, decision-maker, etc. It is also much easier to sit in stillness and let thoughts arise and disappear. The deep stillness inside is much easier to access.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
It was a combination of pondering what you said about "all illusion is in thought," consistently checking to find the self, and reading the Gateless Gatecrashers. Reading each of the stories was like addressing a piece of a puzzle that clicked into place until everything had been addressed. Each story had an element that needed to be addressed and so doing the excersizes in the reading, helped.
5) Describe decision,
intention,
free will,
choice and control.
Give examples from experience.
Decisions just happen in the moment in any given circumstance. Decisions are just made because there is the understanding that there is no decision-maker and therefore, no free will. Free will implies that there is a separate self that administrates and has control. Intention implies a future or future event that is also based in thought and therefore, an illusion. The body just does..without a self.
There was a car accident a couple of weeks ago and there has been a period of limbo around decisions from this side and from the insurance company. Before this shift, the "i" would have been worried around creating action plans, making phone calls, and worried about the worst case scenario. There has been non of that because it is recognized that there is no doer to make plans and try and control the situation. Control over life situations is an illusion. There was nothing done and now the life situations are working themselves out. It just took trust and a knowing that there is no self to make things happen.
What makes things happen? How does it work?
Things happen automatically. For example, the body knows how to drive, and so driving happens. The self is not needed to take credit for it or needed for any function. The self is a ghost that never made anything happen, it was just preceived as doing so.
What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.
Responsibility belongs to the mind-body. Not a separate self. Not sure how to really address this question other than that. What do you you mean by responsibility? In what context?
6) Anything to add
Just that there is great gratitude for your help!
Re: Liberation Unleashed
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Glad to read your answers. You are welcome whenever there is a need for.
I share your answers with other guides, there could be questions from their side.
Best for you
Glad to read your answers. You are welcome whenever there is a need for.
I share your answers with other guides, there could be questions from their side.
Best for you
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