Self-Investigation...

'Self-Inquiry' (which I prefer to call 'Self-Investigation') is not really about asking one's self the rhetorical, intellectual, psychological or theoretical/philosophical question, "Who am I?"

in some abstract sense, and then gradually ruling out what you are not until you arrive at some "answer" concerning who you are by an intellectual process of elimination.

It is not so much asking yourself WHAT you are in some conceptual way.

It is more a process of looking deeply at the existential fact THAT you are here and now, present in this moment.

It is about investigating that fact right now, in your own direct experience and then seeing what that direct, existential investigation reveals.


Francis Bennett