Awakening from the dream of separation and suffering may be as simple as looking for WHO is trying to wake up. Who ARE you? Using self-inquiry to unlock your true identity.

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00:00 Intro
00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry
05:10 Who are you?
08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap
16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego
19:53 Resistance & shadow
24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process
27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening, non-duality
32:10 Surrendering to unfiltered, self-less reality
36:12 Why the smartest people have the most trouble with this
38:20 Investigating the imagined self, the science of no-self
41:39 Can the experience of unfiltered reality be destabilizing , the goal of liberation