How To Use Self-Inquiry For Awakening: Rich Doyle
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
'You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?'. This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems' - Ramana Maharshi.
Self-Inquiry is a process through which you investigate and discover what you fundamentally are - and what you are not. It is a 'technique' popularised by the Indian Sage Ramana Maharshi, in which you question your sense of 'I', and which can lead to a profound sense of peace and wellbeing.
I came across Rich's work via Gary Weber - author of the outstanding book 'Happiness Beyond thought'. In it Gary details how he 'woke up' and literally stopped the endless chatter in his head that is so familiar to the vast majority of the human species. Gary then taught Rich how to do self-inquiry, and Rich 'woke up' too - leading them to record dialogues together which you can find on YouTube.
In this conversation we discuss how to do self-inquiry, the importance of practice, the best questions to use to help you, as well as the potential healing power of psychedelics and in particular ayahuasca.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. This episode is about the power of self-inquiry, |
| 0:05.8 | which is fundamentally about asking or inquiring what or who am I. We all use the word I every |
| 0:13.7 | day so many times and yet so few people consider what that word actually points to. |
| 0:19.9 | And when you start exploring that question with genuine |
| 0:22.7 | interest and openness, it can have a profound impact on your life. Are you your thoughts? No, |
| 0:29.4 | they come and go. Are you your body? No, your body's changed completely over the course of your life, |
| 0:35.7 | even as you have remained present. So what are you? |
| 0:39.1 | Now, Self-Inquiry was made famous by the Indian sage, Romano Maharshi in the 20th century. |
| 0:43.8 | It's something I have really embraced that's had a profound impact on my life, helped in a big |
| 0:49.4 | way by the work of my guest, Rich Doyle and his right-hand man, Gary Weber, author of the brilliant |
| 0:55.3 | book Happiness Beyond Thoughts, undoubtedly one of my favourite books for Awakening. We also discuss |
| 1:01.5 | psychedelics in this episode, Rich and I, including our respective experiences of ayahuasca, |
| 1:06.2 | which is a substance that's obviously illegal here in the UK and requires the utmost respect, |
| 1:11.8 | as well as establishing a meditation routine and integrating that and surrender practices |
| 1:16.0 | into our daily life and much more besides. |
| 1:18.7 | This is a deep one, but I hope you enjoy. Rich Doyle, an absolute pleasure to see you. How are you, sir? |
| 1:41.0 | Doing great, doing great. Lovely to see you here from Pennsylvania. |
| 1:43.9 | Now, as I reached out on email and explained to you, I recently discovered you from the |
| 1:49.3 | talks you record with Gary Weber about happiness beyond thought, which is the name of |
| 1:54.3 | Gary's book, and awakening. |
| 1:55.9 | And I resonated hugely, which is why I got in touch. |
| 2:00.7 | I was delighted to have done so. You both sent me |
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