- What is actual experience of ‘I’. What is actual experience of scalp? What is actual experience of ‘feeling the scalp’? Just use the blocks, what is there?I can feel the scalp and move it.
- Okay, concepts make sense of what is happening. But what is happening without the concepts. It’s not that you need to ditch the story, just recognise what is story and what is not.The concepts and ideas seem to be the things that make sense of the experience; make it 'known.'
- Thought ‘says’ it would be like this. You can’t figure this with thought.Otherwise i would just be blindly walking through the windy day and never even noticing that something was blowing the bag around.
- I am asking you to question your assumptions, then to look and to see it. I can see you are struggling with this. But if you take it as a new belief it isn’t going to do you any good at all. You need to loosen up around this. You could look at this: http://documentarystorm.com/horizon-the-secret-you/ around 49:30 – but this is just to loosen you up, you need to see it for yourself. I'm not a scientist, and don't want to discuss it, just hoping it will make you look - this can be seen in experience.I have a strong sense of agency. Are you saying there is no such thing at all?
- Whether it is done in awareness or on autopilot, is it not still just happening?This can be done knowingly, clearly, in awareness, or on autopilot whilst thinking about the solicitor's appointment later today.
- delaying happens, pondering happens – is there really agency or does thought ‘say’ so. Thought says the sun will rise, and it does!"Thought jumps in after the action." Can't thought precede the action? I haven't got up to get a drink yet. I've deliberately delayed the process. There has been an intervention. Now i can sit here pondering what i will get to drink. Water, soya milk, cordial? I can ponder the infromation stored in the mind about each of the options. I could have coffee but the mind remembers the negative effects of coffee so i'll choose decaff or have water instead. Agency.
- Are there two things or one? Isn’t sitting in open awareness, still awareness of sensation? Can you isolate awareness?There is a sense of sitting in open awareness, apprehending all that comes to the senses as the spider apprehends all that falls into it's web. The web is there waiting.
- GoodActual existence of yesterday is a thought story
- Does yesterday exist in this moment? Is it there? Can you find it?but i can verify that roughly with other people and i know where i can find my diary and laptop, where the office is and where the fob to get me through the door is and how to use it etc etc.
The quote function would really help me with this. I’m struggling to see what your missing from the questions…. but it’s down to you.
Be well,
Aragon
