Self Enquiry: Relaxation of Mind Into Its Source

Most people feel a degree of dissatisfaction for much of the time from a mild sense of boredom to a full-blown episode of suffering. Our culture has educated us to search in objects, such as substances, activities, or relationships, to find relief from this sense of dissatisfaction. All great spiritual traditions tell us that the intuition that happiness cannot be found in objective experience is correct, and that it is the very nature of our self. Self-enquiry encourages this self knowledge, is a relaxation of mind into its source. It is not something we do; it is the cessation of all doing, the cessation of becoming. That for which mind longs above all else resides in the source. Mind cannot reach that, only subside into it. This subsidence is self-enquiry, self abidance, or subsidence of ourself into its source.

Most people feel a degree of dissatisfaction for much of the time from a mild sense of boredom to a full-blown episode of suffering. Our culture has educated us to search in objects, such as substances, activities, or relationships, to find relief from this sense of dissatisfaction. All great spiritual traditions tell us that the intuition that happiness cannot be found in objective experience is correct, and that it is the very nature of our self. Self-enquiry encourages this self knowledge, is a relaxation of mind into its source. It is not something we do; it is the cessation of all doing, the cessation of becoming. That for which mind longs above all else resides in the source. Mind cannot reach that, only subside into it. This subsidence is self-enquiry, self abidance, or subsidence of ourself into its source.