1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No, never was, never will be.
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 separate self is a persistent thought that appears to claim other forms of experience as belonging to "it". It starts when you are young, "why" it starts I'm not 100% on, but at some point thoughts start saying that there is a "you" separate from objects outside of your mind/body, and that "you" ARE or OWN your mind/body.
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.
Feels kind of silly, to be honest. Before I started LU, it felt like "I" needed to have an experience of awakening or enlightenment to do... something. Feel better. Be valid. That it would be some kind of special experience that would make "me" more special as a result.
Over the last few days, it is clearer that there's no merit badge to be earned to make me special. There's no me to be special, and there's no quality of specialness required for anything. There are processes occurring that generate what appears to be reality, and they also generate a "me" that reality seems to be appearing to, it makes me feel curious and excited to continue to understand this process.
4) What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?
It's funny, I think it was actually wayyyy earlier in this process, playing with permutations of thoughts to generate a reaction, like "I am going to awaken." "I'm not sad that I will never awaken." It's what made me see that if everything in direct experience is exactly where it is, there's nothing to get awakened, nothing to do the awakening, no awakening apart from anything else, no anything else apart from awakening. It's like the entire present is a perfect crystalline structure of the entire present and nothing can be added or taken from it.
5) Describe how decisions are made & give examples from experience.
Decisions aren't really made, as there's nothing to make a decision and nothing outside of thought/experience for a decision to be made in. It's a thought. I just cleared my throat, but I didn't have a thought deciding to do that. I just had a thought deciding to become an astronaut, but I am not an astronaut. It's irrelevant.
Describe intention & give examples from experience.
Intention is also a thought, same as decisions. I don't see them as being very different. Intention is a thought more about possible decisions that could be made, rather than a specific decision being made, but in direct experience it's the same type of content as "I want a lasagna."
Describe free will & give examples from experience.
Free will is a thought as well. It's a thought saying there is a "me" that is "free" to make decisions/choices based on its own volition, intention, desires, etc. Free will says I could choose to do "anything" I wanted, but I can't choose to become an astronaut, and I cannot manifest a lasagna, so it is a mistaken assumption.
Describe choice & give examples from experience.
Choice is a thought that gets tacked onto past or future actions that says "I made this happen." It feels like I chose to make jokes about lasagna, but I would have had to have an infinite shopping list of alternate thoughts to have that existed out of time, that "I" was able to shop for and choose the lasagna thought from.
Describe control & give examples from experience.
Control is a thought/concept. In this exact moment, there is no control, as nothing can control anything else. Everything is arising as it is, exactly as it is. It cannot act or be acted upon.
What makes things happen? How does it work?
I don't know, in direct experience. Things are just happening.
What are you responsible for? Give examples from experience.
There's no "me" to be responsible, and "responsibility" is a thought generated out of past memories around social/cultural conditioning, legality, expectations, and so on.
If I accept operation on a mundane level for a minute, there's responsibility there, primarily to not cause harm, but nothing corroborates that in present direct experience.
6) Anything to add?
Thank you for the endless patience. It's funny that I think my first real "glimpse" of "getting it" was on page 9 and then there were 12 more pages of me tossing and turning.