Cool, looks like these questions where useful !! VERY useful.These are just to make sure we’ve covered all areas.
Thanks again for pointing out at the illusion. Thank you so much man !!!
There is looking happening, there is hearing happening. There are pleasant sensations arising.What does this mean? What self? What do you see that feels happy, gets nice feelings, claims to be looking at it?
That's all there is in direct experience.
The self comes along as a memory/image of past good feelings associated with the object "phone".
So there has been a "correlation" in memory of Object and Good feeling.
So that if Object is lost then the thinking thinks that Good feeling will get reduced.
It happens that when this thought is thought a feeling of sadness also occurs.
Ahah this is driving "me" nuts.
As explained above there is simultaneity of thought of lost and feeling of sadness. Cause and effect inferred because they occur at the same time. Actual experience is thinking + perception of sadness/upset emotion (perceived in the "body")What do you mean here? What is this ‘I’ that arises? Can it trigger anything? Is that cause and effect inferred or actually experienced?
Possession is a thought. A relationship appearing in thought linking different perceived fields (thanks to contrast) of seeing, hearing, touching...What ‘we’ could possess? Is there a ‘me’ that can’t possess or is there no ‘me’ that could possess anything?
Observation occurs. There is no "me" to which it happens to.Are ‘you’ this ‘observer’?
There is doing by the body. There are thought appearing. No "I" to be seen.Again could you expand here? Is there an ‘I’ that does or thinks?
!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for the precision of this question !!!!!!!!!What ‘I’ sees what ‘I’ is doing? What ‘I’ can choose to be with THIS or not?
Keeping this question in mind is like a dive into the abyss.
THERE IS NO "I" AT ALL WHATSOEVER. Nothing can choose anything (saying/thinking this "pierces" my heart almost push me deeper I was still attached to this idea, still had some illusion of control, looks like it is now seen as a punch in my face. There is NO "I" AT ALL. Renversant. Litteraly. Fear arises. No foothold. Ca fait flipper. So nothing can choose anything. Want to cry now. That's hard to accept. Really needed someone to point that. C'est dur a accepter, ca fait mal)
Cannot SEE anything there. There are things unfolding. That's it.What do you SEE that can respond to events? Is that separate from the event?
Can ‘you’ decide to be in the NOW, and do what’s right?
Nothing can "do" what's "right".
NO NO NO NO NO.Forget whether ‘I’ feels responsible… is there an ‘I’ to be responsible?
Can't see it, can't feel it. There IS NO such "I".
No "I" can claim this. There is just THIS.Could you expand on this too? What ‘I’ can claim these things? What ‘me’ gets THIS presented to it?
Breathing is still breathing though. Not dead yet it seems ;)
Thanks!!
