Saturday 22 October 2011

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strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 2nd, 2011, 3:12 am
What brings you here my friend?
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 2nd, 2011, 10:11 pm
Sorry for the delay, just noticed you pinged me! 

I am here to wake up from the thought of me. It feels like 
I've gotten about as far as one can go in understanding this 
on an intellectual level. The past five days or so has been 
about getting very focused and intentional about living it 
experientially.

What appears to be in the way is the persistent belief that I 
exist as a point of view/the one having a perspective. I get 
that the body isn't me, that doing isn't done by me, etc. But 
is "I" that which sees everything through this perspective? 
So there is stuck-ness on the I being the experiencer. 

Thank you for working with me, Nemo. I read your blog 
posts the other night and found them incredibly moving.

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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 4th, 2011, 6:41 am
Hello! Yes, I pinged you. Although plucked might be a better 
word, strangechord :)
Welcome here. And thanks for the blog feedback, I'm happy 
that it resonates.

So. You said - 
"is "I" that which sees everything through this perspective?"
Let's take a look. Is there someone or something inside 
looking out and through, or can you only find the 
perspective itself? Does seeing require a seer?

Say you're sitting in a small room at a computer (which you 
probably are right now). You can see the room, which is 
probably a couple meters in each direction, and all the stuff 
in the room. Maybe you can see a little way outside through 
the window. Now imagine you're standing at the top of a 
mountain. You can look out to the hills, valleys, trees, and 
out to sea. That perspective now encompasses many many 
miles instead of a few metres. So where is this point of 
reference, this centre of experience? Is it where the body is, 
or where the eyes are? Or is it somewhere between the 
closest point in seeing and the furthest point - somewhere 
between the body and the ocean? And what if you're driving 
in a car, and trees, rocks, buildings, phenomena are rushing 
past, popping in and out of experience?

Is this really one stuck perspective, or is it ever-moving and 
ever-changing, all-encompassing? Is there absolutely 
anything permanent and concrete about it? "Your" reference 
point isn't necessarily unique, or one separate from many, 
it's the only reference point. Any information given to you 
about other "reference points" or experiences is always 
second-hand. So while it may or may not be true, you can 
never know for sure because it's not verifiable through direct 
experience. This is the only knowable reality. Hence the only 
reality - the only thing you can honestly call "true".

So let's rewind. Let's take a look at direct experience and go 
back to that original question you asked.
"is "I" that which sees everything through this perspective?"
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 4th, 2011, 3:48 pm
Nemo wrote:
Hello! Yes, I pinged you. Although plucked might be a better 
word, strangechord :)
Welcome here. And thanks for the blog feedback, I'm happy 
that it resonates.

So. You said - "is "I" that which sees everything through this                                                          
perspective?"
Let's take a look. Is there someone or something inside 
looking out and through, or can you only find the perspective 
itself? Does seeing require a seer?


No, I can see plainly that seeing doesn't require a seer. It's 
the thoughts that arise that I am the one seeing that are 
then believed that cause the distinction of seer. 

Nemo wrote:
Say you're sitting in a small room at a computer (which you 
probably are right now). You can see the room, which is 
probably a couple meters in each direction, and all the stuff 
in the room. Maybe you can see a little way outside through 
the window. Now imagine you're standing at the top of a 
mountain. You can look out to the hills, valleys, trees, and out 
to sea. That perspective now encompasses many many miles 
instead of a few metres. So where is this point of reference, 
this centre of experience? Is it where the body is, or where 
the eyes are? Or is it somewhere between the closest point in 
seeing and the furthest point - somewhere between the body 
and the ocean? And what if you're driving in a car, and trees, 
rocks, buildings, phenomena are rushing past, popping in and 
out of experience?


The point of reference is where the eyes are/where the body 
is. If driving in a car, the point of reference is the seeing of 
everything out the window popping in and out of view. 

Nemo wrote:
Is this really one stuck perspective, or is it ever-moving and 
ever-changing, all-encompassing? Is there absolutely 
anything permanent and concrete about it? "Your" reference 
point isn't necessarily unique, or one separate from many, it's 
the only reference point. Any information given to you about 
other "reference points" or experiences is always second-hand. 
So while it may or may not be true, you can never know for 
sure because it's not verifiable through direct experience. This 
is the only knowable reality. Hence the only reality - the only 
thing you can honestly call "true".


Not sure I understand the first few sentences. I feel like I'm 
getting something wrong or overlooking something! lol It 
does feel like there's one stuck perspective, from these 
eyes/this center, that is permanent and concrete, yet sees 
ever-moving and ever-changing phenomena outside of it.

I do get that the only thing verifiable is that which is directly 
experienced. I can't know how it is ever from someone else's 
perspective. In this sense, I understand that all there is is the 
reference point.

Nemo wrote:
So let's rewind. Let's take a look at direct experience and go 
back to that original question you asked. 
"is "I" that which sees everything through this perspective?"


In asking that again, what comes in response is that there is 
just this perspective. It doesn't matter whether I call it "I" or 
not. To call it "I" is an unnecessary label. To call it "I" is just 
to believe a thought that persistently wants to be believed. 

Let me ask you something, can there be a seeing-through 
the fallacy of "I" and still "I" thoughts can come up and beg 
to be believed (are really "sticky")? Because I think what's 
also in the way is a lot of beliefs and ideas about what 
liberation must be like and it limits openness to whatever 
shows up. I grew up in a meditation community where we 
kids learned all sorts of untrue notions about enlightenment 
from adults who were not awakened but were yearning for it. 
As an adult, I have spent years deconditioning most of those 
childhood notions, reading spiritual books and listening to 
talks (Adya, Tolle, Balsekar, etc), attending satsangs. A 
spiritual teacher I met a few weekends ago said that I was a 
"spiritual connoisseur" and that that was likely the last refuge. 
I feel intuitively that that's true because at this point I've 
accumulated so much knowledge and stuff in my head around 
awakening that it's likely in the way now. Anyway, felt 
compelled to give a little back story, whatever it's worth. :-)
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 5th, 2011, 12:46 pm
Hey there strangechord.
Do you play the guitar or piano?

Okay, so firstly, this point of reference stuff. 
Sorry that you didn't understand what I was getting at, some 
things can be seen clear enough but sometimes difficult to 
express! Also keep in mind that everything said here is not 
truth itself, only potential pointers to the truth. 

Let's try a different line of attack here.

Think of "experience", or "life" as like the ocean. A wave can 
appear in it (much like "strangechord", as an expression of life 
appearing in the void), but the wave can't really said to be a 
point of reference per se, it's always moving and changing and 
never consists of the same water particles. It contains the
ocean itself. And if it is separated from the rest of the ocean,
it can no longer be called either a wave or ocean. Does that
make sense?

You said -
I understand that all there is is the reference point.

If a point of reference is all that is, can it still be called a 
reference point? Is the ocean a point of reference in the ocean?


the point of reference is the seeing of everything out the 
window popping in and out of view.

You also said -
I can see plainly that seeing doesn't require a seer.
So, there is no seer, but there is seeing, which appears to start 
at the eyes and move outwards from there, yeah? 
But how can you be certain that this "seeing" doesn't actually 
start from the furthest point in the visual field and move in 
towards the eyes? Perhaps neither of these scenarios are true? 
Seeing requires both the eyes to see and the thing seen. Take 
the seen away and there is no sight. Take the sight away and 
there is nothing to see. So sight and what is seen are not really 
two separate things, but instead crucial for the existence of 
each other, but more importantly of this one thing known as 
seeing. Nonduality - "not two".

Here's another way to look at this point of reference thing. 
(I hope I'm not confusing you too much, but we're jamming, 
yeah? Point of reference actually confused me a whole lot and 
seemed to be my last piece of the puzzle too when I was 
examining self, and I still have a whole lot of fun exploring it. 
So please bear with me! It's an important thing to look at so I 
am actually quite exited to be discussing it, I'm really glad you 
brought it up. Also, I think the fact that you've been confused 
by it means you have been looking closely and honesty at this 
and are serious about it. A great sign.)

Okay, so anyway. Consider this.
What ever is verifiable in experience, can be said to be true. 
Anything that is not in direct, verifiable experience may or 
may not be true, but it can never really be more than just 
conjecture, hearsay. You can never know for sure if it's true or 
not. It's something that needs to be thrown out in scientific 
study, in courts of law, and also here, in examining reality. Not 
necessarily ignored, just discounted, ultimately. How could 
hearsay be accepted over direct knowing? Why would you take 
someone else's word for it if you could find out directly? 

I feel like I'm in ramble mode a bit. Please stay with me :)
People tell you what their experiences are like, stories about 
their lives, what things are like from "over there". However, 
they will only ever exist as stories. And stories are great, 
they're fun and interesting and exciting, and even real, a real 
part of experience, but only as stories in "your" experience. 
So maybe these stories are describing other real reference 
points, and maybe they're just part of a dream. And you'll 
probably never know for sure either, but either way it doesn't 
even matter. All that exists is the one reference point which 
contains stories about other reference points. Which bring us 
back to - 'If a point of reference is all that is, can it still be 
called a reference point?'
And when death comes, when this reference point ceases to 
exist, does the world and everything in it continue along? 
(One thing I also used to trip myself over a lot were 
paradoxes, but they make sense now, because ala 
Schrodinger's cat, it seems two opposite things can be true 
at the same time. (Except maybe when directly looked at!))
Yes, possibly life still goes on, maybe even probably. Also - 
No. In fact most likely not. Gone, nothing, nada. Experience 
melts away back into the void and the whole world with it. 
Existing stops, existence with it.

Whew! I'm really enjoying this here. And hoping that I'm not 
being too self-indulgent, and most importantly that you're 
getting something from this :)

I can see plainly that seeing doesn't require a seer. It's the 
thoughts that arise that I am the one seeing that are then 
believed that cause the distinction of seer.


And -
In asking that again, what comes in response is that there is 
just this perspective. It doesn't matter whether I call it "I" or 
not. To call it "I" is an unnecessary label. To call it "I" is just to 
believe a thought that persistently wants to be believed.



Really nice stuff my friend. Beautiful. I think it was Alan Watts 
who spoke about how much of our language (particularly 
concerning personal pronouns) is unnecessary, or at least 
misleading and badly constructed, and that it's entirely 
conceivable for a new language to be developed to correct 
these linguistic problems. So, fingers crossed for that one! 
But until then, unfortunately, we still need this language to 
communicate, so using terms like I, me, my is fine, if there is 
an awareness of what they are really pointing to.

You said:
Let me ask you something, can there be a seeing-through 
the fallacy of "I" and still "I" thoughts can come up and beg to 
be believed (are really "sticky")?
Yes, of course. Seeing through "I" doesn't actually destroy it, 
right? It's seeing it never actually existed. So what ever was 
there beforehand can definitely continue to come up after. 
But once no-self is seen, it can never be unseen. Sometimes 
sense of self can still come up quite strongly. 

But sense of self isn't the same thing as belief in self.

I feel intuitively that that's true because at this point I've 
accumulated so much knowledge and stuff in my head around 
awakening that it's likely in the way now.
Yes, certainly, it can seem like the more you've learned, the 
more there is to unlearn. But it's not as big an obstacle as it 
seems. Knowledge isn't so bad and you don't need to be 
completely rid of it. You just need to be able to set it aside for 
long enough to do an honest enquiry. It's like hearsay. It 
doesn't have to be banished, just let go of, so real knowing 
can happen. See that knowledge isn't you or yours, that there's 
no need to identify with it, and detaching comes easy. And 
knowledge isn't something you can set your watch by either. 
Something can be true or known one moment, and not the 
next. Or, both true and not true at the same time, like 
Schrodinger's cat. 

I've said a lot of stuff about direct experience, and examining 
it to find out what's true. 
This is what it all boils down to - can a self, or any irrefutable 
evidence of a self, be found in any way shape or form?
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 5th, 2011, 5:27 pm
Nemo wrote:Hey there strangechord.
Do you play the guitar or piano?



No, neither. I sing, though. And I love music so much - pretty 
wide musical taste. Everything from old school goth to 
ambient to indie folk.


Nemo wrote:
Okay, so firstly, this point of reference stuff. 
Sorry that you didn't understand what I was getting at, some 
things can be seen clear enough but sometimes difficult to 
express! Also keep in mind that everything said here is not 
truth itself, only potential pointers to the truth. 

Let's try a different line of attack here.

Think of "experience", or "life" as like the ocean. A wave can 
appear in it (much like "strangechord", as an expression of life 
appearing in the void), but the wave can't really said to be a 
point of reference per se, it's always moving and changing and 
never consists of the same water particles. It contains the 
ocean itself. And if it is separated from the rest of the ocean, 
it can no longer be called either a wave or ocean. Does that 
make sense?




Yes, that makes sense. I've listened to Jeff Foster talk a lot 
about the wave/ocean analogy and it makes perfect sense. 


Nemo wrote:You said -
I understand that all there is is the reference point.


If a point of reference is all that is, can it still be called a 
reference point? Is the ocean a point of reference in the ocean?



Touche! Yes, when this is "tried on" (all there is is reference 
point), it is seen that there is also no reference point. This 
body, these eyes see things differently and see different 
things, however, from another person's eyes. It is this 
different seeing that has always been called "I" or referred 
to as the "I"'s reference point. 



So, there is no seer, but there is seeing, which appears to start 
at the eyes and move outwards from there, yeah? 
But how can you be certain that this "seeing" doesn't actually 
start from the furthest point in the visual field and move in 
towards the eyes? Perhaps neither of these scenarios are true? 
Seeing requires both the eyes to see and the thing seen. Take 
the seen away and there is no sight. Take the sight away and 
there is nothing to see. So sight and what is seen are not really 
two separate things, but instead crucial for the existence of 
each other, but more importantly of this one thing known as 
seeing. Nonduality - "not two".



Yes, that is clear, that both are crucial for the existence of 
each other, for seeing.


Nemo wrote:

Let me ask you something, can there be a seeing-through the 

fallacy of "I" and still "I" thoughts can come up and beg to be 

believed (are really "sticky")?

Yes, of course. Seeing through "I" doesn't actually destroy it, 

right? It's seeing it never actually existed. So what ever was 

there beforehand can definitely continue to come up after. 
But once no-self is seen, it can never be unseen. Sometimes 
sense of self can still come up quite strongly.



This gives some freedom, that it's not about destroying the 
ego (just another word for sense of self), but seeing through it. 

Here's where I'm hung up, though. No-self has been seen, 
many times, but has not abided. The "me" comes up again at 
some point and is believed again to some extent. So isn't that 
the same as saying no-self is unseen again? I have a strong 
desire for ABIDING seeing, for permanent liberation from 
seeking. I am waiting for some "click" whereafter there is no 
seeking or uncertainty anymore. I keep having the thought, 
"Has there been awakening or not?" and am not 100% sure of 
the answer. But then I think, probably not, or there wouldn't 
still be all this seeking energy.


Nemo wrote:
I've said a lot of stuff about direct experience, and examining 
it to find out what's true. 
This is what it all boils down to - can a self, or any irrefutable 
evidence of a self, be found in any way shape or form?



A self cannot be found. Only thoughts about a self, based in 
time, based in story. Those thoughts don't have nearly the 
hooking power they used to, not even close. But they're not 
gone completely. They don't need to go away completely 
because they only have hooking power when believed. 
They are not believed or taken to be true that often anymore. 

But if that is seen and understood - why no "click" still??

There is the intuitive feeling that the big block is some 
expectation of what awakening will be like. Also, that it's 
based in the future sometime. 

It's all very exhausting - this seeking, this yearning. You 
know, I don't feel any fear really (like most people do at the 
gate?), but there's an awful lot of frustration and desperation. 
When welcomed and met, these emotions melt away. But it 
keeps arising.
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Postby strangechord » October 5th, 2011, 7:09 pm

Ok, so after I typed that to you, I did some inquiry writing on 
the computer. Here's what I wrote:


"What is this doubt?

This doubt is a fear of uncertainty. 

Question: Who is uncertain? Who has doubt?

Reveals: It’s just thoughts. 

Because I have images/ideas about what awakening looks/
feels like, I keep seeking just for that and discount 
everything that isn’t that. The mind thinks it knows what it’s 
after and will feel certain once it’s found. But who says the 
mind’s ideas about awakening are accurate? The mind is 
relying upon second hand knowledge from others and past 
direct experiences to inform itself what to look for. 

What if all of those ideas/images are relaxed? 

There’s the persistent thought whenever I do inquiry or 
presence meditation: “Is it about to click?” Almost as if the 
mind believes it can will awakening to occur, to POP. 
Everything is done with an “in order to” pop.

What if there is no POP, no click? Ever? What would that feel 
like?

There’s a fear of just bumbling along through the rest of life, 
being resigned to a blah life and feeling this yearning, this 
seeking all the while in the background. There’s a fear that the 
seeking would never stop and I would just be miserable and 
hopeless. It feels like hope for awakening holds everything 
together right now. That without the possibility of awakening, 
I would just want to die. There wouldn’t be any point to 
anything. There’s fear of living in this limbo the rest of my life. 

There’s so much fear. There’s fear of hopelessness. There’s 
not fear of annihilation of self, there’s fear of never seeing 
through the self. Of being stranded, hopeless, in limbo, in 
exile with this deep never-ending seeking."


After I wrote that, there were some tears and fear emotion. I 
closed my eyes and welcomed that and took a look. Suddenly, 
a voice out of nowhere said, "What do you know is true?" And 
there was a resting-in-awareness. Resting in that I am, I exist. 
That is the only thing known to be true. 

There was then a few minutes spent absorbed in that, with 
eyes closed. All the while, a lightness, almost spacey feeling in 
the body and head. I then wrote:


"The mind throws up doubt. Doubt is just mental noise. Every 
so often there’s a grasping – a wanting to hold onto what’s 
here. Then there is a relaxing of that and a recognition that 
what is always here can never be lost, just not seen.

There is looking: Is there an “I” who has woken up? There’s no 
I, or rather, I is just seen as a thought that can be believed or 
not. It is just not automatically believed. There’s only 
identification with “I” if it is preferred. 

Fear and doubt and grasping arise occasionally. There is still 
“getting lost in thoughts” that happens. There’s even a little 
judgment about that that arises. These are all such habits! 
Same old, same old! Laughing and crying with this at the same 
time. Same old habit, patterns, it really is just conditioning. 
They are automatic, these habits. Emily gets lost in thoughts 
and then judges herself for it. Habit. 

Fear that this will not be abiding arises. That too is habit. 
Wanting reassurance arises. Pet that thought on its head and 
love it. Recognize that that thought doesn’t need to be 
believed or taken seriously. There is just this."


Had a call with my husband (I am in my office at work during 
all this!) and there was listening to him with total love, 
acceptance and no strong opinions or desire to control. Very 
effortless. A coworker came into my office go over something 
work-related and there was a slight stunned-ness looking at 
him, a sense that I had never seen him before. Nothing major, 
just subtle.

So, every so often there is the wondering if this will be abiding. 
And then the recognition that that is just a habit thought. An 
echo of an echo of an echo thought, still reverberating around 
my head. Who knows what this is. Who knows what will be 
going on here tomorrow.


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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 6th, 2011, 2:24 am
Strangechord. 

Emily.

Gahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Your story resonates so much here it's astounding.
You write with such clear, fresh honesty. I feel as though I am 
gulping lungfuls of pure cold oxygen.

No, neither. I sing, though. And I love music so much - pretty 
wide musical taste. Everything from old school goth to ambient 
to indie folk.


Me too :) I sing a little and play piano/guitar. Have fun 
mucking around with electronic sounds too. And very wide 
musical taste. Music is my religion, for sure.

You seem to have responded to your own (brilliant) first post 
with your second one, which is wonderful, so we can go from 
there if you're good with that.
I love, love, love how you approach your inquiry.

Because I have images/ideas about what awakening looks/
feels like, I keep seeking just for that and discount everything 
that isn’t that. The mind thinks it knows what it’s after and 
will feel certain once it’s found. But who says the mind’s ideas 
about awakening are accurate? The mind is relying upon 
second hand knowledge from others and past direct 
experiences to inform itself what to look for. 

What if all of those ideas/images are relaxed?


Nothing to add to that. Simply perfect.

There’s the persistent thought whenever I do inquiry or 
presence meditation: “Is it about to click?” Almost as if the 
mind believes it can will awakening to occur, to POP. 
Everything is done with an “in order to” pop.


You know, there is no need to try and even stop the mind from 
waiting for a pop. Just watch it with a playful curiosity, allow it 
to play itself out and dissolve. Which is exactly what you seem 
to be doing. Such a joy to watch!
Just as a side note in this - waiting for something to happen in 
the future, and projecting in a future, will always remain in the 
future. There is no waiting required for what is happening 
right now - which is where "it" is already happening. 
Future (and past) exist only as thoughts in this moment.

What if there is no POP, no click? Ever? What would that feel 
like?


This made me grin like a goofy idiot. Aaaaahhhhh!!! :D

There’s a fear of just bumbling along through the rest of life, 
being resigned to a blah life and feeling this yearning, this 
seeking all the while in the background. There’s a fear that the 
seeking would never stop and I would just be miserable and 
hopeless. It feels like hope for awakening holds everything 
together right now. That without the possibility of awakening, 
I would just want to die. There wouldn’t be any point to 
anything. There’s fear of living in this limbo the rest of my life. 

There’s so much fear. There’s fear of hopelessness. There’s 
not fear of annihilation of self, there’s fear of never seeing 
through the self. Of being stranded, hopeless, in limbo, in 
exile with this deep never-ending seeking."

After I wrote that, there were some tears and fear emotion.




This made me tear up too!! I feel you. I am so with you in this, 
every step of the way.

There is looking: Is there an “I” who has woken up? There’s no 
I, or rather, I is just seen as a thought that can be believed or 
not. It is just not automatically believed. There’s only 
identification with “I” if it is preferred.


I know this analogy has been flogged to death but it's a good 
one. You stopped believing in Santa as a kid, right? Can you 
really, honestly, choose to believe in him again? Or just 
entertain thoughts, fantasies, "what ifs"?
Why did you stop believing in Santa in the first place? Because 
you realised your parents had been putting presents under the 
tree the whole time. It was all a big charade. Maybe there is 
some bearded guy actually living in the North Pole wearing a 
red suit, who knows? It's possible. Even so, he still couldn't be 
the Santa you once believed in, the one who climbed down 
your chimney each year. That Santa didn't just disappear one 
day, ready to return when you choose to believe again. He 
never existed.

However - certain things were attributed to this Santa fallacy. 
Presents, half-eaten cookie, empty glass of milk. The joy of 
being a kid waking up on christmas morning. The nostalgia 
and reliving of that joy. But these things didn't disappear 
along with the Santa belief, these things were always real. 
They existed without Santa the whole time. It's just been a 
case of misidentification. 
It's the same with self.

I said this before but I think it's quite an important distinction.
Sense of self isn't the same thing as belief in self.

Fear and doubt and grasping arise occasionally. There is still 
“getting lost in thoughts” that happens. There’s even a little 
judgment about that that arises. These are all such habits! 
Same old, same old! Laughing and crying with this at the same 
time. Same old habit, patterns, it really is just conditioning. 
They are automatic, these habits. Emily gets lost in thoughts 
and then judges herself for it. Habit.

Crap, I've been laughing and crying along with you! Thank you 
so much for sharing all this Emily. Really.
I don't get very emotional over this stuff too often. I think I 
usually have a somewhat methodical, scientific feel to my 
approach a lot of the time. Thanks for reminding me of the 
humanity... tenderness... fragility.

Habits are patterns that have built up over a life time, as you 
said. Quite often there are a lot built up around belief in self. 
Seeing no-self doesn't make them disappear, but they don't 
have to be there forever. Self is like their fuel, and when the 
source is gone they are able to just run their course and fade 
away without the continuous reinforcing there to maintain 
them. Burning away karma. Don't force it, just observe, be 
open, and allow things to unfold as they should.

Fear that this will not be abiding arises. That too is habit.

Yeah, things are going to happen the way they are meant to no 
matter what your expectations. Trust. You're not in control, 
life is steering this ship. And whatever happens, it will always 
be the right and real and true thing. 
It cannot be otherwise.

Wanting reassurance arises. Pet that thought on its head 
and love it. Recognize that that thought doesn’t need to 
be believed or taken seriously. There is just this.


*heart melts*



A coworker came into my office go over something work-
related and there was a slight stunned-ness looking at him, 
a sense that I had never seen him before. Nothing major, 
just subtle.


Awesome! Why do you think this happened?

So, every so often there is the wondering if this will be abiding. 
And then the recognition that that is just a habit thought. An 
echo of an echo of an echo thought, still reverberating around 
my head. Who knows what this is. Who knows what will be 
going on here tomorrow.


Yep. Yep. Yep. Thought. Wondering if it will be abiding, 
or thinking it is not abiding, just thought. 
Reality - truth - what is real, can never not be abiding. 
No matter what.

You mentioned you have seen no-self several times.
Would you be willing to try and put these aside and do 
it fresh, as if for the first time?
Let's go back to this statement:
The mind is relying upon second hand knowledge from 
others and past direct experiences to inform itself what to 
look for.


Instead of only doing internal inquiry with the mind, 
strip it right back and see how no-self might apply, 
make sense, or not make sense in simple every-day 
reality. Instead of just mind, use/look at body, senses, 
environment, observation, honesty. How does self or 
no-self relate?
Look in every place that self could possibly hide. 
Illuminate every corner. Take as much time as is 
needed to explore this. 
Then come back and lay down some free-flow :)
Describe as much as you can about I/me/self. 
What, where, why, how, who. 
Really looking forward to it.

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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 6th, 2011, 3:48 am

Thank you so much for working with me, Nemo. I am so glad 
to hear there's resonance! So much delight reading your reply...

It's funny... There has been an attachment around a story of 
needing to be special my whole life, of wanting to be more 
memorable, more interesting, more deep than other people. 
Your replies to my last post stirred that story and thoughts 
arose around "see, look how special I am". They were caught 
immediately - recognized as old, habitual story thoughts and 
kinda made me chuckle. There is a tendency of mind here to 
have "spiritual superiority" thoughts and want to believe them 
and make it part of identity. Vigilance is absolutely important 
here. Not judgment for those thoughts (which would just be 
further personalization it seems), but vigilance that they 
don't hook into belief. To be vigilant is to be awake.

After I wrote that last post to you and after an amazing 
lunchtime in the outdoors and around people, I spent the 
afternoon at the office feeling very tired and like there was 
a "coming down", a fading of the certainty and exhilaration 
I felt earlier. Still, though, the aperture, so to speak, stayed 
somewhat more open than usual. I didn't have as much of a 
disappointed, frustrated, hopeless feeling as I have in the 
past that "oh, this wasn't abiding!". Instead, there was a gentle 
recognition that nothing was lost, that any obscuration was all 
in the mind. There was the knowing that thoughts of 
separation and frustration did not have to be believed.

There's still the lingering question, how is there certainty that 
the gate has been crossed? I heard Adya once say that the sure 
sign that awakening has occurred is that seeking has ceased - 
there is no more seeker to be found. I can't tell if seeking has 
ceased... I think I'm too tired tonight and kind of worn out. 
It's about 9pm here right now.

I love your question at the end of your post about self/no-self 
in daily life. I will definitely answer it in the morning. Thank you 
again, you are wonderful. There is so much gratitude here that 
you understand what I have written and the particular inquiries 
here.
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 6th, 2011, 11:45 pm

Hi, Nemo! What an internal roller coaster today! Huge 
awakening this morning just like yesterday morning and 
then a "coming down" and de-intensifying in the afternoon 
with huge tiredness and some dizziness present. Is this 
common? It feels like a definite process is going on here 
this past week. The states go up and down, but there is an 
underlying assuredness that all is well and there is nothing 
that can be lost, even after blissful states have passed. It's 
starting to seem that rather than one certain click, there is a 
two steps forward, one step back kinda feel to all this. Does 
that all make sense?

Wanted to share something I wrote this morning (after I wrote 
this, I had to take a bathroom break because the urge to laugh 
and cry simultaneously over how hilarious and wonderful it all 
is was overwhelming!):

"If the 'I' identity is only found in thoughts and thoughts just 
appear spontaneously, there really is no 'I' at all outside being 
a thought about ownership that is believed. What is owned, 
willed and claimed is simply a spontaneous appearance.

THIS is bliss. We are here to enjoy. All there is is this. Laughing 
– it’s hilarious that there was ever believed to be any control! 
It is so wonderful that there is no control – 'I' have no control 
over anything!

There’s no fear of not abiding, because there’s just this. This 
is always here. The fear of not abiding is just believing 
thoughts about the I having any control over anything."

Anyway, I want to answer your question from before:


Nemo wrote:
Instead of only doing internal inquiry with the mind, strip it 
right back and see how no-self might apply, make sense, or 
not make sense in simple every-day reality. Instead of just 
mind, use/look at body, senses, environment, observation, 
honesty. How does self or no-self relate?
Look in every place that self could possibly hide. Illuminate 
every corner. Take as much time as is needed to explore this.
Then come back and lay down some free-flow :)
Describe as much as you can about I/me/self. 
What, where, why, how, who.




With no-self, there's no urge to try and control anything. 
Everything just kinda flows. There is a deep peace and 
assuredness that everything that occurs and is experienced 
is apt and fine. There is the recognition that any attempt to 
control or get bent out of shape about anything is pointless 
and just adds instant suffering. Life is going to unfold as it 
unfolds whether the overlay of control is added or not. And 
life is far more enjoyable and effortless without it.

There was a bit of an internal struggle all afternoon that I 
should still feel all sorts of bliss and delight if this was indeed 
IT. But let's take a look at that... An hour or so ago, there was 
a familiar irritability/anger at having to do some work task 
that previously hadn't been bothering me all day, and in fact 
at times, had totally delighted me because there was so much 
delight with everything. I saw that both the anger and the 
delight were just states and that states come and go 
spontaneously, just like thoughts, and that there is no control 
over their coming and going. Freedom. Relief. When that 
strange little anger arose earlier, I acknowledged it and 
though there was the thought that this irrational anger was 
odd, I welcomed it anyway. It barely lasted any time at all - 
a few minutes at most.

This tiredness and a bit of dizziness/spaciness in the head 
and eyes keeps coming every afternoon. This body probably 
just needs more sleep this week!

There's no longer such an intense need for certainty as there 
was even yesterday. So much seeking energy has gone. Is 
there still seeking? It's not so much seeking, but a feeling 
that this burgeoning awakening is fragile and needs to be 
tended... the best analogy I can think of is that the fire has 
been started and now needs to be stoked and tended so that 
the blaze can burn ever brighter and hotter. Hmm, now that 
I write that, I see that that's assuming the fire could go out if 
not tended to, which implies that this seeing can be lost 
again. *sigh* I don't know. Feeling really tired.

It was interesting being at work today while all of this was 
going on. There are huge, productive bursts of getting stuff 
done with no stories running in commentary. No old stories 
of self-pity over the boringness of the work, no stories of 
resentment toward coworkers, no stories of feeling the need 
to irritatedly check in and control my husband from afar as 
he takes care of our toddler at home. Just clean doing of the 
work and it was delightful! The body/mind knew how to do 
the work that had to get done and just did it.

Bits of experience over lunch at a restaurant of loving every 
person I saw. Just heart melting love. Seeing them as no-self, 
as having no control over anything and just loving them in 
their humanness. Feeling really at ease with people - little 
bits of self-conscious will pop up here and there, but there 
is much more confidence in interacting with others. People 
that normally kinda intimidated me (like my boss), there's 
been ease and friendliness and almost no fear. There's so 
much more patience than before with my husband. With the 
recognition that he is not my long-running stories about him, 
there is just love and patience.

There's still a pining for an all-is-one, world breaking down in 
a crazy, ecstatic way kind of experience that will bring finality, 
certainty, etc. But isn't it probably perfect that that is not 
what's occurring? It allows me to see that that kind of 
experience is what the mind wants.

I'll leave it at that for now - that was just a riff. Looking 
forward to YOUR response!
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 8th, 2011, 12:49 am

Hey there strangechord :)

What an internal roller coaster today! Huge awakening this 
morning just like yesterday morning and then a "coming down" 
and de-intensifying in the afternoon with huge tiredness and 
some dizziness present. Is this common?

Yeah there are often reports of that sort of thing. There can 
be significant energetic effects on mind, body, emotion - 
understandably! There is no standard process though, each 
experience is totally unique, and each one valid.

The states go up and down, but there is an underlying 
assuredness that all is well and there is nothing that can be 
lost, even after blissful states have passed.

Ah, wonderful! Perceptual shift is happening... paradigms 
are falling away.

It's starting to seem that rather than one certain click, 
there is a two steps forward, one step back kinda feel 
to all this. Does that all make sense?



Most definitely. My own click, or moment of realisation, 
seemed to sort of stretch out over 2-3 weeks. I just pictured 
trying to snap your fingers once over a span of 2 weeks...
haha! Anyway, it didn't actually feel like a click. More like 

pieces falling away. 

I can't even be completely certain that all the pieces could 

all ever truly be gone, even when it seems like they are. 
Even if things feel done, or are in fact done, I am really, 
really happy and relieved about the fact that I am unable to 
subscribe to the belief that I am, or could ever be. Seeking 
feels done, but things are still being learned and unlearned 
as I fall deeper down the rabbit hole each day. And it seems 
highly unlikely there's a bottom to hit. Once there is 
surrender to the falling there is no need to actively try and 
"fall" anymore.


If the 'I' identity is only found in thoughts and thoughts just appear spontaneously, there really is no 'I' at all outside being a thought about ownership that is believed. What is owned, willed and claimed is simply a spontaneous appearance.

Brilliant!


THIS is bliss. We are here to enjoy. All there is is this. 
Laughing – it’s hilarious that there was ever believed 
to be any control! It is so wonderful that there is no 
control – 'I' have no control over anything!


There's a Zen saying, "All that's left is laughter." (Actually, if 
you search for that in youtube you'll find a really great 
example from Jeff Foster.) A sense of humour is vital :)




There’s no fear of not abiding, because there’s just this. 

This is always here. The fear of not abiding is just 
believing thoughts about the I having any control over 
anything.


Yup. You're on Fire! So perfectly simple isn't it? 
"True nature" or Truth is the simplest thing there is. Only it 
gets lost under piles of crap that gets heaped on to it - and 

confusion happens. All we're doing is letting stuff go, 
dropping it, clearing the way. Wiping the sleep from the eyes.



With no-self, there's no urge to try and control anything. 
Everything just kinda flows. There is a deep peace and 
assuredness that everything that occurs and is 
experienced is apt and fine. There is the recognition that 
any attempt to control or get bent out of shape about 
anything is pointless and just adds instant suffering. Life 
is going to unfold as it unfolds whether the overlay of 
control is added or not. And life is far more enjoyable 
and effortless without it(...)


Absolute poetry.

the best analogy I can think of is that the fire has been 
started and now needs to be stoked and tended so that 
the blaze can burn ever brighter and hotter. Hmm, now 
that I write that, I see that that's assuming the fire could 
go out if not tended to, which implies that this seeing 
can be lost again. *sigh* I don't know. Feeling really tired.

Who or what is responsible for stoking the fire? Who is really 
in control here, an illusory "I", or the fire itself? These words 
were used - Assuming. Implies. Is this describing what is 

happening in reality right now, or is it just thoughts
projected into the future? What is happening right now, that 
isn't just a thought? 



The body/mind knew how to do the work that had to get 
done and just did it.

Has this always been the case? What is the main difference 
between before seeing this, and now? 


There's still a pining for an all-is-one, world breaking 
down in a crazy, ecstatic way kind of experience that will 
bring finality, certainty, etc. But isn't it probably perfect 
that that is not what's occurring? It allows me to see that 
that kind of experience is what the mind wants.


Wow, it is so thrilling to see expectations and beliefs just 
melt away like this. A marvellous inquiry into the simple 
reality of self in every day life too. Interactions are a great 

place to look. 

You are looking right at this.

Hold your gaze steady and give me some really simple 

descriptions. What are you referring to when you say "I"?


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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 8th, 2011, 6:08 pm
Good morning, Nemo. 

What a roller coaster these past few days! Yesterday morning 
was pure seeing, no-self, lots of clarity and peace. Then, 
wham! After lunch there arose huge fear around non-abiding, 
around being sucked back into the "I" belief and having to go 
back to seeking and feeling more hopeless than before. Huge 
fear and panic. I sought out help on the LU Facebook group 
and ultimately, Ilona and I messages back and forth through 
it. I was at my desk at work, so every so often I had to take a 
bathroom break and cry. Lol. It was just so present and 
consuming, the fear and then sadness. After my chat with 
Ilona and welcoming and sitting with the emotions, there 
was a lot of weariness and tiredness. Ended up sleeping 
almost 12 hours last night. 

The past few morning, the "I" comes roaring back. My dreams 
last night were intense with I identificstion and This morning, 
I lay awake in bed for a while totally feeling back in I 
identification and yet seeing that I was, if that makes sense. 
I kept reminding myself all about no-self, no control, 
everything happening spontaneously, etc to try to shake off 
the I belief and return to okayness and no-self. Then I would 
see all this effort in the mind and let it all go and rest in 
presence. Back and forth, back and forth for a while.

So this is my experience, that this is a process and two steps 
forward, one step back. It seems the I belief appears very 
strongly in the morning and that it takes great intent, 
vigilance and effort to let it go again. There's just so much 
wobbliness and clumsiness about this whole thing! 

Now there's a question: What would happen if I didn't "effort" 
in the morning? Would the letting go happen at Somme point 
during the day spontaneously? I see that i've been operating 
under the assumption that this has to be done each morning. 
Any guidance here? 

What is different from, say, a week ago, is that no-self is 
really seen and how that shows up in daily life is a letting go 
of 95% of the controlling behavior I used to do of myself and 
others. The impulse to control or judge someone will arise 
suddenly, familiarly, and it's countered with an immediate 
awareness that it's not true. An small example: my husband 
used the last of the sugar in the bowl on his coffee and told 
me to refill the bowl with the big bag of sugar if I wanted 
some for my coffee. Immediately and reactively, I wanted to 
say, "why can't you do it?!" and there was the judgment/old 
story of him being lazy. Very quickly, it was seen that there 
was no "him" to be lazy, that that was just a story and that 
also that was happening was that I needed to fillnthe sugar 
bowl. So I said nothing and it was fine. This sort of seeing is 
happening regularly. 

There's less attachment around things needing to look and 
feel a certain way. Most seeking energy had gone, although 
there is still some energy around wanting to know how to 
more gracefully navigate all of this, so I'm listening to a lot 
of "post-awakening" talks by Adya, Scott Kiloby, etc. I have 
a phone session with Scott Kiloby scheduled for next weekend. 

All this "stoking" is thoughts projected into future, like you 
hinted. What's happening is that the mind is going nuts and 
throwing up allsorts of frenzied thought activity. When all of 
this mental activity Is let be and attention is returned to 
present awareness, there is no problem. 

Will there come a time when I am unable to subscribe to the 
belief in "I"? 

To answer your final question, what I am referring to when I 
say "I" is what's going on with this mind-body organism. It's 
a language shortcut. Although if I'm totally honest, there is 
still the sense of I in the mind.
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 10th, 2011, 8:28 am
Hello strangechord!
Apologies for the delay my dear, I hope things are going well.
Great post. Roller-coasters are wonderful aren't they? :)

It might seem, at the moment, like no-self is something you 
need to keep reminding yourself about. And if you feel 
inclined to do so, and it's helping, cool, do it. Although 
no-self is something that cannot be forgotten or unseen, I 
completely relate to and understand the initial urge to 
deepen awareness of it in this manner. It's a bit like 
discovering a new muscle you never knew existed, and now 
you want to flex and strengthen it, yeah? Speaking from my 
experience it's something that does becomes more "abiding" 
over time. (Also, don't worry too much about what might or 
will happen.) 
This is something that helped me: try to get a feel for the 
space around and in between thoughts. It's where self was 
previously considered to be, that's now known to be empty. 
The void. Expand into it, get a feel for it. And remember, 
reality is reality, and doesn't need constant awareness of it 
of it to remain that way. So if there isn't a constant awareness 
moment to moment, it doesn't matter. No need to worry or 
strain. Be gentle with yourself, with experience. Truth can 
never be absent from direct experience. Okay?

Now there's a question: What would happen if I didn't "effort" 
in the morning? Would the letting go happen at Somme point 
during the day spontaneously? I see that i've been operating 
under the assumption that this has to be done each morning. 
Any guidance here?

Well, the above all goes for that as well. But maybe if you 
can also try this: Don't.
See if you can make a conscious effort not to "effort" :) see 
what happens. Try this as an experiment and report back 
with your findings; give me your answers to the above 
questions. I am actually quite excited and curious to find 
out what you come up with!

All this "stoking" is thoughts projected into future, like you 
hinted. What's happening is that the mind is going nuts and 
throwing up all sorts of frenzied thought activity. When all of 
this mental activity Is let be and attention is returned to 
present awareness, there is no problem. 

Will there come a time when I am unable to subscribe to the 
belief in "I"?

Heheh - is that another thought projected into the future?
I cannot answer that for you I'm afraid. Why do you ask? 
Would it matter? 
Are you subscribing to that belief right now?

To answer your final question, what I am referring to when I 
say "I" is what's going on with this mind-body organism. It's a 
language shortcut. Although if I'm totally honest, there is still 
the sense of I in the mind.

Yes, wonderful. Can you explore this a little more, elaborate? 
Where did self come from to start with, and what is it's 
purpose, it's function? 
Mind still has a sense of I, you said. So, these identification 
thoughts exist. Mind thinks it is a thought. Is this true? Can 
a thought think? Is "the sense of I in the mind" really you?

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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby strangechord » October 10th, 2011, 10:23 pm
Hi Nemo, 

Much of the previous post's anxiety has left. At the end of 
last week, there was clear seeing of no-self and it was 
accompanied by a feeling of lightness in the head and body, 
deep peace and fulfillment with every moment, and some 
bubbling-up bliss occasionally. Friday a lot of emotion and 
mental anxiety started coming up and it didn't really stop all 
weekend. At times, there was heavy identification with 
thought and "I" and suffering over having "lost" being awake. 

Yesterday (Sunday), I read two chapters from Adyashanti's 
"The End of Your World" about the whole "I got it, I lost it" 
thought phenomenon and that helped greatly. There was a 
recognition that last week marked the end of believing I was 
a separate self, the end of seeking to find who I really was, 
and the end of belief in self-improvement as the road to 
happiness. However, this is definitely the beginning of a 
different life. A life lived with the recognition of my true 
nature, but also full of the question of how to live from this 
rather than the old, conditioned, separate, ego-filled sense 
of self. Hope that makes sense.

So I don't know how to "label" what's happened here over the 
last week or so. Am I liberated? In a sense, yes. But I can't say 
I am living from that all the time. In light of the clear seeing 
that who I thought I was is just a thought, there is certainly a 
new recognition of all the myriad thoughts throughout the 
day that are "unawake". And that's where the focus is now; in 
seeing all of that and the willingness to be honest and open 
about all of the ways identification still shows up.

There's no more mental effort to will myself back to the state 
I was in last week. There is the pausing through the day, 
though, to rest in awareness and consciously let go of 
following thoughts. The less allegiance to the mind, the more 
at peace!! Today was pretty effortless, just living life and 
noticing little identification thoughts happen here and there. 
No bliss or giggles or anything, but I see now that to be 
attached to that is to set myself up for anxiety when it's not 
there.

When I wrote that there's still the sense of "I" in the mind... 
Let's see... there is only "I" when "I" is thought of. Otherwise, 
it is not there. There is seeing that it is only a construct of the 
mind.
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Re: strangechord, come in, let's make some music

Postby Nemo » October 11th, 2011, 3:17 am
Hello!

Wonderful! So happy to hear it. Music to my ears.

Am I liberated? In a sense, yes. But I can't say I am living from 
that all the time.

It's okay, it actually IS what is being lived all the time, it can't 
be any other way. You're just concerned because you're not 
looking directly at it all the time. The sun doesn't have to be 
looked at directly all the time for light and warmth to be 
present and evident. Trust in the truth :)

Let's see... there is only "I" when "I" is thought of. Otherwise, 
it is not there. There is seeing that it is only a construct of 
the mind.

Amazing, isn't it?

You don't seem to have any more doubts about seeing this, 
and that's really great.
A good way to have this really deepen, and sink in, is to look 
at this quite closely for just a few minutes and really examine 
it thoroughly. Then you can really be certain there is no more 
doubt. There's an old saying, "know thine enemy". Self isn't 
really the enemy, but you get the gist.
So if you can give me one last long rant, that would be really 
great, the hard work can be over. Just focus solely on looking 
at and talking about the nature of self. Let's go back to those 
questions:
Where did self come from to start with? 
What is it's purpose, it's function? 
Do you exist in any way, shape, or form?
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Postby strangechord » October 12th, 2011, 5:06 pm
Nemo wrote:
You don't seem to have any more doubts about seeing this, 
and that's really great.
A good way to have this really deepen, and sink in, is to look 
at this quite closely for just a few minutes and really examine 
it thoroughly. Then you can really be certain there is no more 
doubt. There's an old saying, "know thine enemy". Self isn't 
really the enemy, but you get the gist.
So if you can give me one last long rant, that would be really 
great, the hard work can be over. Just focus solely on looking 
at and talking about the nature of self. Let's go back to those 
questions:
Where did self come from to start with? 
What is it's purpose, it's function? 
Do you exist in any way, shape, or form?


Self comes from a thought. A thought that is believed. 
Identification with self is strengthened through repeated 
investment in "I" thoughts. 

The purpose of self is to perpetuate the illusion of separation. 
"I" believes it's an island looking out at others and the world. 
"I" is the illusion of ownership of reality through the constant 
thought stream of commentary on what is. The self's function 
is to be absorbed in its own dreamscape.

I do not exist as a separate "I". There is existence of this 
body, thoughts appear, doing is done in daily life, and there 
are sense perceptions. However, there is no "I" that owns 
these things. There is no controller; there is no author. To 
believe there is a controller is to suffer. 

All is well!
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Postby Nemo » October 13th, 2011, 3:56 am
Emily :)
Welcome home.
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