Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything and in between these two my life moves.

A quote by Nisargadada Maharaj. Happy holidays. I'm excited to have my Christmas hat out once again.

I almost wish that I could wear this hat every single week,

but then I would be freaking people out in July or something like that.

Maybe I should wear it sometime for April Fool's.

But anyways, in this episode, I thought we would do some more work on self-enquiry.

How do you do self-enquiry? This is a technique that I talk about a lot along with meditation and yoga and psychodellics and so forth. This is one of the core spiritual techniques towards awakening yourself, but even though the technique is simple,

it can be very tricky to do it properly.

So let's actually demonstrate it for you live right here and point out some of the traps and pitfalls and various ways that it can be done incorrectly.

It's very important that you understand with these meditative techniques,

whether you're doing mindfulness meditation or self-enquiry or yoga,

that you need to be doing these techniques precisely and properly

because otherwise you will waste decades doing these techniques and not seeing

the full benefits that are promised to you and then what will happen is you'll get discouraged and you'll just start to think like well all this enlightenment stuff must just be

fantasies and fairy tales because I'm not seeing it in my direct experience.

Well that's because you're not doing the techniques correctly.

And it's sort of like you know if you were launching a rocket ship to the moon

you would double check, triple check, quadruple

checked all of your parts of your rocket ship to make sure that they all function

before you actually launch the thing because you have so much invested in it. So much riding on the line.

Well it's the same thing with your awakening. You're going to be doing this yoga or

this self-enquirer or this meditation for the next five or ten years probably

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