In this episode, I am joined by Sunny Sharma, creator of the Self-Inquiry School.

Now, self-inquiry is, you could say, an advanced form of meditation that gets us to investigate what we mean when we say I, a word we all use more than pretty much any other every day.

What does that word really point to?

We talk about what self-inquiry and meditative practice actually looks like in real life.

We talk about the trap of bypassing and avoiding our human messiness and what it really means to live this stuff.

Sunny Sharma, it's a pleasure to have you on a new way of being. How are you?

Hello, Simon. I'm very well. Hope you are too. Thank you for having me.

It is a pleasure. I've been enjoying your content. I've been dipping in and out for a fair old time. And there's a few things I appreciate about you. Number one is how

focused you are on self-inquiry. You do the school of self-inquiry because it's,

for me, the most, certainly one of the most if not the most

fascinating spiritual practice so that's number one and then number two is how you don't try

and paint yourself as someone enlightened and awakened but rather speak from your place

walking the path which I think is very

refreshing. That's something I sort of try and do as well, not to claim to be some finished

product and put yourself on a pedestal in that way, but no, I'm walking the path and if you

want to do, come with me. Yeah, thank you for that. Yeah, so my work on my channel and in my school is really focused on walking the spiritual

path and focusing entirely on the practice component of it.

Of course, theory plays a great part of it.

We have to learn.

We have to be instructed on what to do.

Little conceptual learning about what you are and, you know, but ultimately it's about really

embodying that in day-to-day life. So all my work is focused on making the very abstract,

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