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by solstice
Tue Jul 02, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
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Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

In Q3 Solstice say "There is some relief, some indifference" I'd be really interested to hear a little more about the relief and also the indifference if you could ask please?
Relief that all the worrisome thoughts that used to plague the day were easily seen to be just thoughts and not get ...
by solstice
Tue Jul 02, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Is there any doubt left, if there is a separate self? Weather yes or no, please write more about it.

There is the occasional doubt thought “I still have more to figure out” “I haven’t seen what these others have” “I still have thoughts so I can’t have seen through self”
These are all just ...
by solstice
Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:53 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Sorry have had a bit of trouble connecting to the site recently so hopefully this posts properly

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever?

No there is not, there is only direct experience and thoughts. There was never an I only ...
by solstice
Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:14 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Would you like the questions?
yes please :)
by solstice
Tue Jun 25, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Is it still just an intellectual understanding?
It seems to be more now. Although it also may have always been more and it was just being overlooked? In a way nothing has changed.

I still have thoughts but they are less (at least for now) and more easily seen as thoughts, and so the same amount ...
by solstice
Sun Jun 23, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Enjoy the ride.
🫡😂
by solstice
Sun Jun 23, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Tell me something that doesn't just occur (even the response to this question)?
I cannot, there is nothing
by solstice
Sat Jun 22, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

There's no doer, this includes doing thinking.
As we have seen there's no control over thoughts.

You had no say in being born or which school you first went to. When did you make your first decision?
This makes sense. Would it be fair to say a decision was made at some point to believe in a self ...
by solstice
Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:33 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

By using the word distance, I was trying to indicate how thoughts and everything else (DE, physical actions, etc) are separated or unrelated. There's a metaphorical gap.

It's easier to see when the thoughts isn't related to the action - like when you're typing a response to this message and a ...
by solstice
Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Is there any distance between thoughts (all of the above) and what's actually going on?
A bit confused by what you mean by distance.
Do you mean like a gap in time between the doing and the thoughts about the doing?

Or do you mean a physical feeling of distance?

If the first it depends on the ...
by solstice
Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:42 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

What about the times the action doesn't stop, how do the thoughts try get around
They are either conveniently quiet, trying to influence the action in some way (guessing at the future, ie guessing the next sentence as this is typed), describing what is happening from a first person perspective, or ...
by solstice
Thu Jun 20, 2024 12:11 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Do you mean literally stops?
Like if eating dinner is happening and you look for the doer, then eating stops happening.
Yes exactly
I'm assuming a doer is not being found.
correct, although the thoughts try to say the stopping indicates they are the doer lol
by solstice
Wed Jun 19, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
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Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Let me know what happens.
A lot of the time action stops, when I look for the doer
by solstice
Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

Could be, but is there any distance between anything?
Just another illusion

Watch experiencing during everyday activities. What is it that drives the car? What puts food in the mouth? What is it that reads these words, types replies? Is there a 'something' doing these...or do they simply happen ...
by solstice
Mon Jun 17, 2024 1:56 am
Forum: ARCHIVES
Topic: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding
Replies: 152
Views: 7077

Re: Seeking more than an intellectual understanding

So what's the difference between the biggest and smallest experience?
Hmmm I want to say time, but when I have been completely in the moment, experiences seem to be timeless (in that long times can pass quickly and vice versa). So I am not really sure, is time just the distance between experience ...

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