Hi guys, this is GrimNexus's Self-Inquiry chat log with me a few days ago, I think it is quite helpful.. and I would request that readers, please do not rush through the conversation, but contemplate every line as if you do not know what is coming next in the conversation.
Self-inquiry can bring about a sudden awakening/glimpse of our true nature, though as GrimNexus says himself it is not the same as Full Enlightenment (Annutara samyak sambodhi).
GrimNexus is an sgForummer, and he will be happy to answer, discuss or clarify anything, any doubts and any questions regarding this
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GrimNexus says: aight so let's try this
GrimNexus says: it's all good
An Eternal Now says: ok
GrimNexus says: ok first off
GrimNexus says: difference between "I" & "My"
GrimNexus says: whatever falls in the catagory of "My" is not who "I" really am
An Eternal Now says: icic
GrimNexus says: if you lose your shoes, are you still you?
GrimNexus says: yes or no?
An Eternal Now says: yea
GrimNexus says: if you lose your arm, are you still you?
An Eternal Now says: yes
GrimNexus says: if you're thinking about going to the store, but then, all of a sudden, someone comes up behind you and scares you, and you lose that thought,
GrimNexus says: are you still you?
An Eternal Now says: yes
GrimNexus says: if you're feeling good, and then all of a sudden you get news that your favorite pet dies and you lose your happiness, are you still you?
An Eternal Now says: yes
GrimNexus says: ok
GrimNexus says: so you see the trend going on here?
An Eternal Now says: yeah
GrimNexus says: anything that falls in the catagory of My is not who you really are ( I )
GrimNexus says: so
GrimNexus says: My shoes, my body, my emotions, my thoughts
GrimNexus says: the same even goes for My Self
GrimNexus says: so who is the I that even My Self belongs to?
An Eternal Now says: hmm
An Eternal Now says: dont know
An Eternal Now says: lol
GrimNexus says: but, that's ok, because now we've narrowed it down
GrimNexus says: to what we're pointing at
GrimNexus says: anything that falls in the catagory of My is not who I really am
An Eternal Now says: icic
GrimNexus says: ok
GrimNexus says: so now
GrimNexus says: what word do you like the best that represents Existence ?
An Eternal Now says: being?
GrimNexus says: Existence, Everything, Being
GrimNexus says: ok
GrimNexus says: what word do you like the best that represents Non-Existence ?
An Eternal Now says: void?
GrimNexus says: ok
GrimNexus says: so,
GrimNexus says: imagine Being then
GrimNexus says: Stuff, Everything, Existence, There,
GrimNexus says: etc
An Eternal Now says: ok
GrimNexus says: now, imagine Void,
GrimNexus says: Non-Existence, No-Stuff, Nothing, Non-Existence Not-there
GrimNexus says: etc
An Eternal Now says: ok
GrimNexus says: ok, so what is Neither of those?
GrimNexus says: what is
GrimNexus says: Neither
GrimNexus says: ?
An Eternal Now says: dont know.. unthinkable?
GrimNexus says: ok so you notice how when you're trying to think of it
GrimNexus says: yes
GrimNexus says: how your mind was all
GrimNexus says: It's everything, it's nothing, it's ..
GrimNexus says: then it goes off in some weird direction then halts
An Eternal Now says: oic..
GrimNexus says: you notice that?
An Eternal Now says: yeah
GrimNexus says: ok, so RIGHT AFTER IT HALTED
GrimNexus says: THAT"S
GrimNexus says: what Neither is
GrimNexus says: Infinity, Now, etc
GrimNexus says: but obviously, noticing that your mind halted
GrimNexus says: starts it up agian
GrimNexus says:
An Eternal Now says: oic..
GrimNexus says: that's who you really are
GrimNexus says: I
GrimNexus says: but there's still so much tendencies covering it
An Eternal Now says: icic..
GrimNexus says: ok, what you noticed
GrimNexus says: or, more accuratly
GrimNexus says: what was noticed
GrimNexus says: look around
GrimNexus says: that's what everything is
GrimNexus says: that's who I am,
GrimNexus says: that's who Thusness is
GrimNexus says: (but also notice that from the looking that this is being filtered through, we still need to remove those)
GrimNexus says: but insight is not hindered
An Eternal Now says: icic..
GrimNexus says: fun eh?
GrimNexus says: btw, this isn't the whole thing
GrimNexus says: because the next question that forms is this