A simple message. For YOU.
From the Guides at LiberationUnleashed.com
There is no you. Look.
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Look at a chair. Do you see the chair?Look at your self. Do you see a self?
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STOP THINKING!
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Don't think, look.
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When there is no thought, where are you?
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Is there someone investigating this or is investigating happening?
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We're looking to see if there's anything real behind the fear. And if there's really a 'you' there. A real one. Is there one you can really find?LOOK!
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Hear the sound of the traffic. Can you hear the self in the same way?Feel your feet touching the ground. Can you feel the self in the same way?Notice that internal picture. Is it "you" or just a picture?
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Look at a table, look at the components, imagine the table taken apart, where is the table? Is there really such a thing? Could this be the same for a me? If arms and legs are gone is there less of you?
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Close your eyes, think of eating an apple, imagine color shape and size, how it feels holding it, really imagine it as realistic as possible, take a big bite, taste the skin, juices and pulp...............
Now open your eyes, where did your apple go? *poof*
So could it be the same with “I” ?
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"Next, as you move around in your normal activities, check and see if you can find a self moving the body around.Walking, driving, typing, dressing yourself, etc. Is there a WHO living your life? Or are there just thoughts about everything, including a self, seeming to live your life? Big difference. Just look at the evidence. In your daily life, in all your actions, keep returning to this focus on the thoughts as you move around. Keep checking if there is something real, besides a thought, that owns and directs the body."
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your story isn't important in this process. it's not that there's anything wrong with a story, and I am even interested to hear it sometime, but for now it will not be productive
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Nope. You can't get there (to seeing through the illusion of self) from here (logical understanding). If you could, you would be there already.
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There are no words to adequately describe how to see, no maps of how to get there; all I can do is Point to where you should look. This is not a mental exercise; all the thinking you can ever do will never get you there. I will give you clue, because I was also a Thinker. Just before I saw it, I suddenly realised that my guide was telling me to LOOK, not to Think. When I looked, I saw it.What is Looking? It is focusing on your Direct Experience. Seeing with the eyes, hearing with the ears, feeling with the skin, smelling with the nose, tasting with the tongue. Sensation, before it is judged and labeled, is direct experience.
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to get to Direct Experience of it, you will have to step away from Thinking About everything and begin to use your senses.
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Those of us who live in a mental world have much the hardest time letting go of the idea that there is something more to be understood. There isn't. You understand it all; now you just need to shift focus from thinking to directly experiencing.
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You may ask what makes direct experience more effective than intellectualization? Two things, at least: first it takes us out of our Story about what is happening and gets us in touch with what is actually happening; and second it is a peaceful quiet "place" which is always available merely by shifting focus away from thinking and to sensation. It really is a peace which passeth understanding, understanding being stuck in thought.
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There is no goal here. I just point to the fact that there is no actual entity self/I/me, and if you genuinely search for one everywhere in your direct experience, you will SEE that it is an illusion created by language and supported by nearly everyone around you. I cannot give this experience to you; you will have to SEE it for yourself.
______________________________
I have recently experienced ear infections that left me deaf as a post. My husband heard the door buzzer, the microwave beep, the noisy football supporters celebrating in the street. But those sounds were unheard by me, and so do not make up part of my direct experience.
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Beware of any sentence with a therefore in it; it is probably a deduction rather than an observation.
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If you wanted to SEE the Eiffel Tower with the eyes in your head, I would direct you to Paris, not to a picture-postcard stand. Same here. If you want to SEE through the illusion that you are or have a separate self that has some control over an individual slice of Life, you must go to direct experience, for that is where this can be SEEN.
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Try not to Think this all through so much. It only makes thought tangles that prevent you from experiencing directly the fact of the matter: "I" is a label. There is no "I" outside of thought/language. No hypothetical I can ever assist you in directly experiencing the fact of the non-existence of an actual entity "I".
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Write for me what you are experiencing right now using the words I and me. Get right to the point, no past or future fantasy, just plain description of here now. Like this: I am lying in bed. I am hearing rain. I am typing these words. Do this for 10 minutes. Watch the body; what physical sensations are happening? Then for the next 10 minutes write what you are experiencing without the words I and me. Just describe the experience as it is happening in the moment, using verbs: Waiting for next thought, typing, breathing, blinking, hearing rain. Again watch what is happening in the body. Now compare these two ways to label experience. What do you notice?
______________________________
Stop playing with "no self" as a concept! You've seen the illusion mechanism but now you're indulging in thinking about it.
Take it inside! Let it really sink in. Absorb the implications!
There is no you.
Is it true?
LOOK!
______________________________
"Liberation is not a thought, a feeling or a state.
Its really so ordinary that we have almost totally missed it.
I can't convince you of it, in fact the only way I can help is to point you
in the right direction to look so you can see it for yourself.
You have to do the seeing. We call it LOOKING.
it is through direct experience that it is seen.
Its like we want you to look with fresh eyes at the truth of common everyday experience.
Like a child sees... without any bias.
Its not hidden. Its just a shift in perspective.
Do not expect fireworks. they may not happen. Each person is different.
Our life situation does not magically turn to constant bliss.
All of the emotions we have had in the past are still here..
it just seems there is much less stickiness to them."
______________________________
...
Look at a chair. Do you see the chair?Look at your self. Do you see a self?
______________________________
STOP THINKING!
______________________________
Don't think, look.
______________________________
When there is no thought, where are you?
______________________________
Is there someone investigating this or is investigating happening?
______________________________
We're looking to see if there's anything real behind the fear. And if there's really a 'you' there. A real one. Is there one you can really find?LOOK!
______________________________
Hear the sound of the traffic. Can you hear the self in the same way?Feel your feet touching the ground. Can you feel the self in the same way?Notice that internal picture. Is it "you" or just a picture?
______________________________
Look at a table, look at the components, imagine the table taken apart, where is the table? Is there really such a thing? Could this be the same for a me? If arms and legs are gone is there less of you?
______________________________
Close your eyes, think of eating an apple, imagine color shape and size, how it feels holding it, really imagine it as realistic as possible, take a big bite, taste the skin, juices and pulp...............
Now open your eyes, where did your apple go? *poof*
So could it be the same with “I” ?
______________________________
"Next, as you move around in your normal activities, check and see if you can find a self moving the body around.Walking, driving, typing, dressing yourself, etc. Is there a WHO living your life? Or are there just thoughts about everything, including a self, seeming to live your life? Big difference. Just look at the evidence. In your daily life, in all your actions, keep returning to this focus on the thoughts as you move around. Keep checking if there is something real, besides a thought, that owns and directs the body."
______________________________
your story isn't important in this process. it's not that there's anything wrong with a story, and I am even interested to hear it sometime, but for now it will not be productive
______________________________
Nope. You can't get there (to seeing through the illusion of self) from here (logical understanding). If you could, you would be there already.
______________________________
There are no words to adequately describe how to see, no maps of how to get there; all I can do is Point to where you should look. This is not a mental exercise; all the thinking you can ever do will never get you there. I will give you clue, because I was also a Thinker. Just before I saw it, I suddenly realised that my guide was telling me to LOOK, not to Think. When I looked, I saw it.What is Looking? It is focusing on your Direct Experience. Seeing with the eyes, hearing with the ears, feeling with the skin, smelling with the nose, tasting with the tongue. Sensation, before it is judged and labeled, is direct experience.
______________________________
to get to Direct Experience of it, you will have to step away from Thinking About everything and begin to use your senses.
______________________________
Those of us who live in a mental world have much the hardest time letting go of the idea that there is something more to be understood. There isn't. You understand it all; now you just need to shift focus from thinking to directly experiencing.
______________________________
You may ask what makes direct experience more effective than intellectualization? Two things, at least: first it takes us out of our Story about what is happening and gets us in touch with what is actually happening; and second it is a peaceful quiet "place" which is always available merely by shifting focus away from thinking and to sensation. It really is a peace which passeth understanding, understanding being stuck in thought.
______________________________
There is no goal here. I just point to the fact that there is no actual entity self/I/me, and if you genuinely search for one everywhere in your direct experience, you will SEE that it is an illusion created by language and supported by nearly everyone around you. I cannot give this experience to you; you will have to SEE it for yourself.
______________________________
I have recently experienced ear infections that left me deaf as a post. My husband heard the door buzzer, the microwave beep, the noisy football supporters celebrating in the street. But those sounds were unheard by me, and so do not make up part of my direct experience.
______________________________
Beware of any sentence with a therefore in it; it is probably a deduction rather than an observation.
______________________________
If you wanted to SEE the Eiffel Tower with the eyes in your head, I would direct you to Paris, not to a picture-postcard stand. Same here. If you want to SEE through the illusion that you are or have a separate self that has some control over an individual slice of Life, you must go to direct experience, for that is where this can be SEEN.
______________________________
Try not to Think this all through so much. It only makes thought tangles that prevent you from experiencing directly the fact of the matter: "I" is a label. There is no "I" outside of thought/language. No hypothetical I can ever assist you in directly experiencing the fact of the non-existence of an actual entity "I".
______________________________
Write for me what you are experiencing right now using the words I and me. Get right to the point, no past or future fantasy, just plain description of here now. Like this: I am lying in bed. I am hearing rain. I am typing these words. Do this for 10 minutes. Watch the body; what physical sensations are happening? Then for the next 10 minutes write what you are experiencing without the words I and me. Just describe the experience as it is happening in the moment, using verbs: Waiting for next thought, typing, breathing, blinking, hearing rain. Again watch what is happening in the body. Now compare these two ways to label experience. What do you notice?
______________________________
Stop playing with "no self" as a concept! You've seen the illusion mechanism but now you're indulging in thinking about it.
Take it inside! Let it really sink in. Absorb the implications!
There is no you.
Is it true?
LOOK!
______________________________
"Liberation is not a thought, a feeling or a state.
Its really so ordinary that we have almost totally missed it.
I can't convince you of it, in fact the only way I can help is to point you
in the right direction to look so you can see it for yourself.
You have to do the seeing. We call it LOOKING.
it is through direct experience that it is seen.
Its like we want you to look with fresh eyes at the truth of common everyday experience.
Like a child sees... without any bias.
Its not hidden. Its just a shift in perspective.
Do not expect fireworks. they may not happen. Each person is different.
Our life situation does not magically turn to constant bliss.
All of the emotions we have had in the past are still here..
it just seems there is much less stickiness to them."
