Invitations~(Self Inquiry)

Self Inquiry

a process

critiqued as denial

of what is sought

and praised as a

path to discard

those hinderances

to a new you~

Both are stories

inviting a resonance

in "recognizing" 

these are stories

appearing empty

and already whole~~

Life as ongoing inquiry

An excerpt from the book Seeing No-Self

Kat (Katrijn) Van Oudheusden

Feb 24

Continue to remind yourself of what you are, even though there is no one to make that happen.

Society continually interacts with you as a separate self, so reminders are needed, often for many years, as the identification with selfing slowly unwinds.

Eventually, reminders are no longer necessary, because no-self is the default.

The seeming act of inquiring disappears, and life becomes ongoing inquiry in the sense of a simple, constant knowing of nondual Awareness even as experience remains dual. I know that I am and that there is no self, even when experience continues as a body-mind.

Whenever we are pulled back into identification with the separate self, sooner or later there is a spontaneous reawakening.

We don’t have to worry, because what has been seen cannot be unseen.

More and more, we will simply know.

More and more, we know ourselves as the sky that we always already were.

This process does itself.

There is nothing for you to make happen.

This is the last excerpt for now. Seeing No-Self will launch next week, on March 3rd.

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