Mind Is a Tool of Awareness · Don't Fixate It for Your Nest ▹
The mind in itself isn't fundamentally problematic. It's just an instrument of awareness. It breaks down when you incessantly meddle with it, battling the workings of nature. It settles in its own terms as you let it settle. Leave the wrestling, release and let it be as it must. You will be more at peace and find more clarity. If action is called for, then let the mind act as it must. You need not be there at the prime driver's seat. You are not the mind. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Progressive Self-Inquiry · Beyond Your Mental Transits ▹
Ever seek what's beyond. Know that anything below it is not you, is not your identity, is not your lasting self. This progressive inquiry will lift you beyond the influence of the transiting states of your mind. It'll give you calm and freedom, happiness beyond your fixated framings. But if I'm not the shapes of my mind, what's there to hold me together? Well see what comes. It won't be worse than what you have as it is. Let the mind be. No need to tweak all the time. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
The Prism of Consciousness · Where Am I · Who & What Am I ▹
White light. Cast through prisms into countless shapes – and there you are. Inquire – "Where am I, what am I, and who am I?" Don't spell it out. Shift your attention to the inquiry. Its essence: a perspective. Enter into the underlying field of awareness. This is self-inquiry. This process leads to your self-realization — and the realization that there's no self to be realized in any of your domains of operation. No need to establish our nest of identity in them. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Meet Your Five Shells of Being · Inquiry Beyond the Cocoon ▹
Seek the ultimate inquirer. Recognize deeper and deeper planes of awareness. We speak of five bodies and five sheaths of the underlying raw consciousness. Your physical food-made body. Vital body of embodied dynamic energy. Mental body of feelings and flavors. Rational body of thought-forms. Causal body of uncognized latent impressions. As your attention shifts between them, inquire: "Where am I, and what am I there?" Also, who am I? Who is, what is, and why? ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Awareness Swamped Again! Core Questions · Inquiry Helps ▹
Back in the pits of awareness. Clawing our way back to baseline clarity! Then, sustain your inquiry. Inquiry in general. What? Why? How? Keeps you awake and vigilant. Keeps you floating. Yes there's the method of self-inquiry. Useful. Also ask, "Where am I?" — and what am I there? Study the lay of the land with the strong pull. You know what pulls you under when you look at the swamp you're in — and the role you've embraced in there. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Self-Inquiry and Witnessing · It Happens, No Self Asserted ▹
Witnessing and observing. Self-inquiry and self-awareness. Not a matter of your five senses. Not a shift to a third person perspective — like a game or an out-of-body experience. What we seek to witness and observe is the workings of awareness itself. Your entire cognitive process in all of its aspects. But please, none of these "I am the witness", "I am the observer" self-assertions. Not for you to land with an ultimate subject self. Just peeling away. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Don't Self-Inquire & Dissociate · Self-Awareness Is Here & Now ▹
Progressive self-inquiry is consequential. As you enter into deeper planes of self-awareness, you witness things that can't be unseen. There are both risks and yields. Peeling off layers of "I am not this, I am not that", you risk absolute dissociation, loss of touch with this reality. For a mendicant sage at the holy hill, that's fine. The rest of us live here and now, and this self-awareness must be integrated in a seamless manner. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Chasing for Mental Peace vs. Detached from Mental States ▹
You identify with the mind. You need it in a particular state and framing to feel satisfaction and happiness. However, it's forever pushed and pulled by the environment and your internals. What do you expect? What follows is a perpetual chase for your preferred framing and feeling. Then be not a slave to your mental states. Let the mind be, as it may. Today broad, tomorrow narrow. Today clear, tomorrow muddy – and forever changing in reflections. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
What Self-Inquiry Is & Is Not · Beyond Mental Affirmations ▹
Self-inquiry is not a verbal or intellectual exercise. You won't reach self-realization by the mechanical repetition of "Who am I". Nor will you attain self-realization by disconnected philosophical inquiries. The core practice is the simple attending to the focal point of your attention. Returning to the center of the ground of being of your ongoing experience. Seek the ultimate inquirer. Recognize deeper and deeper planes of awareness. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
Back to the Pits of Awareness · How Self-Awareness Vanishes ▹
Back in the pits of awareness once again? Mere moments ago in my calm and lucid abiding. What happened? The basic mechanism is very simple. You abide aloof in your self-awareness. Then a particular concern draws your attention. You enter a role and nest your consciousness there. Back in a fraction of yourself. What can we do about this? It takes patience, it takes persistence, it takes determination. It's a matter of practice and reconditioning. ⛲Living Awareness ▹
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