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.”
Here we are again in the pits of awareness,
clawing our way toward baseline clarity.
We'd like to stay in the high ground,
not keep on digging the soil
with our noses over and over again.
Here we need not engage in matters of high magic.
The single most beneficial thing for us
is the sustaining of our inquiry.
Inquiry in general.
— What?
— Why?
— How?
The simple open awareness –
something remains to be understood.
That keeps us awake and vigilant,
rather than being driven by
the chain reactions of our environment,
rather than being pushed and pulled,
sunk under by the flow.
Yes, there is the method of self-inquiry.
And who is asking the question
about who is asking the question,
recursively further inward.
That is useful.
For a more fine-grained understanding
of the swamp you've landed in this time,
there is also the inquiry as to "Where am I?".
And what am I there?
The inquiries of "Where am I?" and "What am I there?"
reveal to you the lay of the land with the strong pull.
You know what pulls you under
when you look at the swamp you've landed in.