Self Enquiry - Who Am I ? By AnDrea

[Steve Hutchinson]

Self Enquiry - Who Am I ? By AnDrea

This script is yours to do with as you choose, you can use it to support yourself and also in your support groups. You have complete permission to use it as a framework and expand upon it also. I trust this meditation script will open your eye so you too will see beyond this limited idea of you being a separate self.

This is a gift, a way of seeing all there is, a way of seeing your new freedom

In-joy x

Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes.

In the next few minutes, you will be guided to enquire deeply into the question “Who am I?”

By investigating our direct experience, we will begin to see through the illusion of being a separate self.

So

Bring your full attention to the present moment

with your awareness to your physical body.

First, notice the weight of the body whilst resting

Notice the sensations in your feet, your legs, your hips, and pelvis.

Feel the rising and falling of your stomach and chest as you breathe.

Bring attention to your hands, arms, shoulders, and neck.

Notice any tightness, tingling or discomfort.

As you scan through the body, ask yourself - is this me? Is this the self? Can I find myself located in any particular part of the body?

See that the body is made up of parts - feet, legs, arms, organs - but your sense of being, of "I," is not found in any one part.

If there were no legs would the sense of self still be?

If there were no legs and  no arms, then where is the self located?

Is the sense of self located in the torso?

What if we were to separate the torso from the head, now where is the sense of self?

The self is not the feet, the legs, or the torso.

It appears to permeate through all parts but is not contained in any particular form.

Check it out for yourself, spend some time pointing your awareness to the parts of what makes you, you…

The left foot. noticing all its sensations,

The right foot and its energies,

The left leg, the right leg.

Notice the shape, weight, the pulsing.

See how the body breathes, digests, and heals without any overseer.

It follows innate intelligence far beyond any separate self.

So, if the self isn’t located in the body, then perhaps it is located in the mind?

Consider for a moment how thoughts bubble up spontaneously about past and future.

We don’t think thoughts, they simply appear.

Emotions swell and fade like waves in the ocean.

Joy, sadness, anger - all feelings come seemingly appear based on conditions.

See how obvious it is that there is no solid, permanent self that is generating them.

Next lets tune into the play of the sense organs.

The ears effortlessly hearing sounds, eyes seeing colour and form.

We do not make sensations happen, they simply appear based on what is seen, heard, smelled.

The senses reflect the dance of life with no controlling entity behind the reflections.

Notice how actions unfold on their own accord.

Walking, breathing, blinking - no one is performing these actions, they happen naturally when the conditions are right.

No doer of deeds, just life dancing gracefully through this form.

See how your identity shifts and evolves.

Views, tastes, roles change, yet something always remains.

That unchanging presence is who you are.

Not defined by any transient experience, but the space in which it all happens.

When all that changes and evolves is stripped away, what remains?

An open, silent awareness.

Ever-present beneath all activity, yet untouched by it.

Rest here in this space of pure being, where all separation and identity dissolve.

This boundless awareness is who you truly are.

Not an object you can name or grasp, but the field of awareness itself - awake, undivided.

Rest here.

There is nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Simply be, without effort or control.

This is your own natural state.

When thoughts come up again, enquire “To whom do these thoughts come?”

See they have no permanent owner.

When emotions arise, ask “What am I that remains ever-present, beneath this changing feeling?”

The answer…

Is your true nature.

Always return to that space of silent awareness, free from all identifications.

Then emerge once again to engage as the character - while seeing it's just a role.

Your true being remains untouched, like the screen on which a movie plays.

Know you are always this freedom.

You have never left.

All seeking dissolves here.

Utter relaxation, complete peace is felt as an experience within the body, nothing to be, nothing to do, other than what is…

Appearing

One field of consciousness

Now realised as limitless

This is what the Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta teachings meant by dying before death.

There is no real self

It is illusionary

Both real in one sense, and unreal in another

It is this seeing

It is this framework that is the recognition of complete liberation.

With this deep understanding,

Slowly return focus outward,

And carry this silently.

Marinating in the freedom of what ultimately IS

Simple Awareness.

A meditation Script

AnDrea

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