Dear Richard,
Experientially, how do we know that we are all of the same spirit? I realize face-to-no-face and it is amazing but I do not know that my no-face is somehow a part or ‘one’ with others’ no-face, and I haven’t seen this addressed specifically or experientially.

Mark.
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Hello Mark,
The only no-face you experience is your own, for sure. So in this sense there is only one.

Of course, this no-face isn't 'yours' personally - it doesn't have your name on it. And it is nowhere and everywhere, so you could say it is where all appearances come from...

The great thing is that when you speak with 'others', they confirm they are no-thing too, and there is complete agreement about what this no-thing is... or isn't...

But their view out from their no-face is different from yours. Of course, their description is hearsay from your point of view... But that's okay.

Yours,
Richard
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This clarifies it - thank you very much for responding ! This whole thing is fantastic - I have been working on understanding "no thing" for about 20 years and I knew it in about 5 minutes on your site and it hasn't gone away! I am completely sure that you hear this constantly! I had the gestalt of a lifetime sitting in my computer room pointing! Zen masters and Christian mystics (my own spiritual upbringing was Catholic) would have laughed so heartily right along with me!

Yours as well !
Mark