Let me show you something about self-inquiry.

Almost everyone misses.

If you ask yourself the question, when am I?

Notice something interesting.

Your mind tries to answer in time.

But who you are exists only now.

In this video, I'm going to share four things that can actually make self-inquiry work.

And the first is to use a question that the mind cannot answer.

And when am I is a really good example of that. And it's something I used for a long time.

If you ask yourself, when am I, and the mind answers now,

it's already missed the now to which it refers.

So thinking actually only exists in past and future.

It can never actually capture this moment.

So when you ask yourself a question like, when am I, you can't answer it. Because

soon as a thought comes up, it's gone. When am I can only refer to the presence that

exists prior to thinking, prior to the mind. And then it's about resting there. The second tool is about making it experiential rather than

conceptual. So if we take another question, which I've written there, where am I?

Most people tend to feel that they are fundamentally located behind the eyes, looking out on the world.

And a big part of that is down to the fact that the visual field is so strong that there can be sensations

there too that we take to be me but if i say take your attention to the soles of your feet

and just notice those tingly sensations,

or whatever it is that we call, sensation there.

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