Dear Rupert,
I’m not sure if it’s more important to be watchful of the movement of thoughts, feelings, perceptions throughout the day, or to keep enquiring into whether or not it’s possible to find a separate self – or both.
With love,
Anupam
Dear Anupam,
Both! You can take your stand knowingly as awareness (I say ‘knowingly’ because we already are awareness but sometimes seem to forget this) and, ‘from there’ or ‘as that’, contemplate the appearances of the mind, body and world, allowing everything to be exactly as it is. Awareness is, in fact, already doing that.
Or you can take a more active approach and investigate the nature of the apparently separate self, at the level of both thoughts and feelings.
You can alternate between these two, just doing whichever you are drawn to do in the moment: passive contemplation or active investigation. In time, the latter will give way more and more to the former: from doing to being.
And then from being to celebrating!
With love,
Rupert
