Self-enquiry

Consciousness takes the shape of a thought that seems to limit it to and locate it in a body. Consciousness, 'I,' seems as a result to know itself as an entity, a body. As it withdraws this projection it comes to know itself again as it is, unlimited and unlocated. In other words, it is only for the apparent entity that self enquiry is a considered to be a process in the mind. When it is seen that this entity is non-existent and cannot therefore enquire into its own nature or indeed do anything else, it becomes obvious that there is always only Consciousness and that self enquiry simply means to abide knowingly as this Consciousness. That is, self enquiry is simply to abide knowingly in and as our own being.