Self-inquiry is a simple practice with a deceptively deep question at its center:
Who am I?

Self-inquiry invites you to examine the sense of “me” that feels like it lives somewhere behind your eyes. The one that seems to be choosing thoughts, directing actions, controlling breath, and navigating life as it unfolds.

You can try it right now.

While reading these words, ask yourself:
What is it inside of me that’s aware of this moment?
What is it that’s listening?

When you look for this “me,” something interesting happens. You’ll find that the “me” you are looking for is the one doing the looking. And then, resting as the “one doing the looking” you realize that looking is just whats happening. No one is doing it.

That feeling of “I’m doing this” is part of what people call the ego. It’s an identification with the body/mind/and actions of whatever it is that is occurring.

One of the most useful ways to notice the ego is through emotional charge. When something feels urgent, personal, frustrating, or heavy. When experience tightens around me, mine, my responsibility, that’s a perfect moment for self-inquiry.

The practice is simply recognizing, or seeing.

Over time, this recognition creates space. Problems arise and dissolve. Tension comes and goes. What once felt permanent reveals itself as temporary. Life continues moving, often without the extra weight of needing to control every outcome or being personally involved.

Self-inquiry does not require effort, discipline, or special beliefs.
It’s a practice you can return to again and again gently, curiously, and without judgment.

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