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Hi Ivan,

Thank you for those guidelines

Bernadette

Hi Li-Anne,

Thank you for your message and offer of more connection here in Perth.

Regards, Bernadette

Thank you Chloe and Ivan for your interest and suggestions.

Ivan, The Teaching Retreats recordings look great and thank you for the link. Now i have the excellent dharma talks ready to go for 10 days !

Would you mind giving me a rough outline of a days timetable that you use on your TMI retreats that i can aspire to?
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Hello Black Ghost

No advice, too early in my practice yet, but loving kindness coming your way.

Struggling with the some of the same frustrations and appreciate your explicit descriptions.

Bernadette

Hi Don,

Hello fellow wavicle. laughing and smiling here too. How cool that two tiny? wavicles right now can talk to each other and enjoy the process like it is the very process of life

Bernadette

Thank you Ivan.

Thinking feels at the time of thinking more solid and real than the state of awareness and yet it proves to be the more ephemeral. What is thinking? What is happening when i am thinking? Why do i think?

Bernadette

Ok, will make sure to check that out.

A logistics question. You sent a message regarding teachers which was helpful but when I came into the forum to reply to it it wasn’t there.Is it somewhere else in the forum?

Kind regards Bernadette

Dear Ivan,

That is a very clear description and differentiates the two “spaces” and how thought moves through them and in what sequence. Thank you. I can work with that now on the cushion this evening and in coming days.

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Thank you for this to all. I am processing your answers.

How can i tell which stage im at with any certainty?

Goal setting right now involves a choice from “everything” How to narrow it down is my question.

It seems to me that attempting focussing on the detail of the breath and on peripheral awareness requires a constant shifting which therefore doesn’t feel stable.

Your thoughts on this?

Hi Mary,

Thank you for the detail on the book references. 🙂

Bernadette

Hello Ivan,

I hope this finds you well where you are.

Does a time come through practice that thinking occurs in an aware space and not in the rarefied atmosphere of seemingly only being the thinking event?

Bernadette

“Fused with thought” is a very accurate description. I would like to stay with this train of thought for a little while as i sense inwardly that the dialogue between us is having an ungluing effect on that fusion. Is it ok with you if i pursue this further here?