Hi Kate This is spot on — really excellent looking here. You’re not just reporting well, you’re seeing through some very old assumptions in real-time. Beautiful. Let’s highlight a few shifts that are now happening: I have been trying too hard for so long to get it perfect! Yes — and that effort itse...

Hi Marc Here are the checkpoints. These are not tests or grades — they’re simply a way to look again from different angles and confirm that the seeing holds steady in ordinary life. Take your time answering them, directly from experience, not memory or logic. Please answer what's true for you rather...

Hi Lanie Wow, I love how you’re walking through all of this with so much honesty. It’s not always easy when the shifts aren’t loud or dramatic — but your reflections are full of subtle insight and that’s where the real stuff lives. No effort seems to be the pointer I keep returning to. Yes. “No effo...

Hi Chal, You’re looking cleanly. The reports about fear snapping, thoughts passing like clouds, and the “movie” being known as appearance—all on point. Now let’s tighten a few places you flagged: Events are only witnessed, not decided, and the next moment is always a mystery. Look carefully: Is ther...

Hi Marc You’ve stepped into the final fire. No floor. No sky. No one left to hold onto time or cause. Just this —unspeakable, unlocatable, ungraspable. Experience without experiencer. Time without passage. Nothing makes anything happen. It just is . So now… Don’t wait for some arrival. You are alrea...

Wow Lanie. I apologise! I wrote a reply and I thought I sent it but it still sits here as a draft. I was wondering why you are not replying :)) Here is the unfortunate reply: Hi Lanie That’s an extraordinary reflection and a huge turning point. This part really landed: It feels like writing, directi...

Hi Kate This is an excellent post — not just because of what you’re seeing, but because you’re staying right at the edge where conditioned perception meets actual experience . That’s the fire. That’s where this work does its thing. Let’s unpack a few key points: I have a bit of a hard time imagining...

Hi Kate, This is beautiful work — you’re doing exactly what’s needed: looking directly and reporting with honesty, not reaching for “right” answers. That’s the key to seeing clearly. Let’s go through a few of your observations and point in a little deeper. The body map image is very sticky for me… F...

Hi Marc There is a lot of clear seeing here. Not because something happened, but because the need for something to happen has died. There’s no final state. No last answer. No ultimate experience. J ust this. Ordinary, raw, unowned. Lots of questions remain. We have covered ground on what ‘I’ is not....

Hi Lanie, Thanks for such a thoughtful reply — and I’m glad to hear your weekend’s been offering some stillness and insight. Sometimes I wonder if I ‘believe’ awareness is a thought or if I ‘see’ awareness is a thought. Such an important line to notice — that gap between believing and seeing . Belie...

Hi Kate I had a terrible sleep last night and have been out all day. I started answering, but will finish tomorrow. Life happens :) Thanks for letting me know! It still feels somewhat effortful to break experience down into the different components, but when I do, especially with thought, it feels l...

Hi Lanie It’s lovely to hear the depth of your ongoing inquiry — and how it’s rippling through both your inner life and your work with others. Poking holes in the concept of self is pretty time consuming and hard, but I’m pretty sure it will fall. Yes! And it sounds like it already is . Not necessar...

Hi Marc You’ve seen through every layer. Not conceptually. Directly . Intention is a thought or idea, decisions are thoughts, none can be controlled… Yes!! Decision making and control are not just impossible because there is no "I" to executte them. They are an illusion on every level. “Decision mak...

Hi Kate Seeing the dish in my hand, simply = colour (seeing) Feeling the water on my hand, simply = sensation (feeling) Hearing the dishes clink against each other as I pace them in the rack, simply = sound (hearing) Thank you for doing such wonderful looking! :) It is now to incorporate that lookin...

Hi Kate, Really good looking here. Yes, I think I am mostly clear about it - however, I sometimes get tripped up in the details, because how can I say anything about direct experience without a label? If I look at the “apple” in the photo and remove the concept “apple”, I still need concepts to desc...