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Teachings and Pointers for Doing Self Inquiry

Watch the whole film Awakening Mind Part 3 "Liberation" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTniMNLDwg&t=3788s Join the next awakentheworld.com sadhana cycle. https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ These retreats are by donation and made available to all. Self Inquiry Dyads – A Powerful Form of Deep Sadhana – Excerpt from Awakening Mind 3 "Liberation"

Self Inquiry Dyads – A Powerful Form of Deep Sadhana – Excerpt from Awakening Mind 3 "Liberation"

AwakenTheWorldFilm Thu Oct 9th, 2025

Check out the latest online 7 day IAM retreat schedule here: https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ The self inquiry intensives at the Samadhi Center are designed to create conditions of no escape for the ego structure, for the awakening or realization of your true nature. Working continuously from early morning to late at night, participants alternate roles in dyads (groups of two), where one person is a witness and the other engages in deep inner investigation to realize who they are. The intensives are in alignment with the self inquiry of Ramana Maharshi, the Zen traditions, and owe a great debt to the Charles Berner self inquiry method as well as the dyad techniques used in modern psychology. To sign up for an in-person 3 day self inquiry intensive at the Samadhi Center (in Ontario, Canada) click here: https://awakentheworld.com/blog/samadhi-center-meditation-retreats/#selfinquiryintensives Who can participate in a self inquiry intensive? A self inquiry intensive is the most powerful tool that we know of for awakening. It may be the perfect catalyst for awakening at a certain point on your evolutionary journey, but it is not for everyone. One may have physical or psychological healing that needs to happen before doing one of these retreats. Please contact us and arrange a zoom call for more information. What is direct knowledge of your true nature? When we usually speak of knowing something, we are speaking about information received from the mind and senses in the form of experience. It is the conditioned self or personality that experiences and knows through the mind and senses. Direct knowledge of your true nature is not mediated by the mind and senses. It is akin to waking up from the dream character that you have been experiencing or identified with, where one “just knows” that one is awake. It is not learned, or conditioned knowledge; it is something intrinsic to our being at a much deeper or more fundamental level. It is a realization of the timeless, eternal, primordial awareness that you are, beyond name and form. Click here for a PDF with instructions on the dyad process: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g24ivxt4pgsaip5/Self%20Inquiry%20Dyad%20Instructions.pdf?dl=0 For in-depth information on the dyad process from the originator of the technique (Charles Berner) click here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ihthtezlg2hqpyd/Enlightenment%20Manual.pdf?dl=0 How to do Self Inquiry – The Dyad Process (Tell me Who you Are)

How to do Self Inquiry – The Dyad Process (Tell me Who you Are)

AwakenTheWorldFilm Tue Jan 31st, 2023

www.selfinquirydyads.com Self Inquiry With the "I AM" App – Directly Experience Your True Nature Through Self Inquiry Dyads

Self Inquiry With the "I AM" App – Directly Experience Your True Nature Through Self Inquiry Dyads

AwakenTheWorldFilm Mon Sep 22nd, 2025

This is intro talk and Q&A session from a 3 hour self inquiry dyad training event. Join the next session, or 3 day intensive here: https://awakentheworld.com/online-resources/ 0:00 – Welcome + today’s flow (talk, Zoom logistics video, Q&A) 1:24 – What self-inquiry is: direct knowing beyond concepts 3:06 – Awakening is universal (not owned by any tradition) 3:30 – Awakening vs spiritual experiences (not a “state”) 4:11 – Why it matters: freedom from identification + suffering 6:24 – Not a project: awakening is “so close we miss it” 7:13 – The root pattern: the “I-thought” and resistance 8:37 – Samskaras/vasanas: craving, aversion, and conditioning 9:47 – Two pillars of practice: attention + surrender 11:17 – Purification: unconscious material rising to be witnessed 12:17 – Why dyads work: complete communication clears patterns 13:23 – What “intend to directly experience” really means 14:18 – Intention vs effort (the “falling asleep” analogy) 16:35 – The paradox: the seeker mind can’t awaken itself (Zen koan vibe) 18:33 – How to do it: inquire, then report what arises 19:36 – Don’t dismiss what appears (even “random” memories) 20:42 – The witness role: neutral presence (no evaluation) 22:43 – Using “I/me” consciously: investigate what “I” refers to 25:35 – The deeper arc: still witness → recognizing what’s always here 28:19 – Subtlety: letting everything be (no preference for peace) 29:04 – Zoom diad logistics + technique video begins 41:30 – Live Q&A: how the back-and-forth timing works 44:04 – Vipassana background: working with fear + sensations in dyads 46:12 – What to share: memory vs sensation vs emotion (no “right way”) 48:25 – Self-inquiry mid-report: catching “I” and returning to being 50:34 – When reporting “breaks” absorption: is peace still available while speaking? 53:16 – Feeling vs “watching” emotions: is inquiry creating separation? 55:47 – Do you need to assume you’re unawakened? (don’t know mind) 57:35 – Short break before dyads Self Inquiry Dyad Training – Sunday March 1st, 2026, Teaching + Q&A

Self Inquiry Dyad Training – Sunday March 1st, 2026, Teaching + Q&A

AwakenTheWorldFilm Tue Mar 3rd, 2026

Day 2 – Self inquiry Teaching (live replay)

Day 2 – Self inquiry Teaching (live replay)

AwakenTheWorldFilm Fri Dec 29th, 2023

Day 3- Self Inquiry Talk (live replay)

Day 3- Self Inquiry Talk (live replay)

AwakenTheWorldFilm Sat Dec 30th, 2023

Day 4 evening self inquiry talk from the online IAM retreat (a 7 day intensive sadhana to realize Samadhi). https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ 0:00 Introduction – Both Parts of the Technique 0:47 Inquiry + Full Sharing – Don’t Dismiss the Mind 1:56 Zen Teaching: Don’t Miss the Reality of the Illusion 2:52 Q&A: Resistance and Blocks in the Body/Mind 3:18 How to Truly Surrender – Letting Go of Letting Go 5:03 Surrender to the Practice with No Expectation 5:59 Live Q&A Begins 6:18 Q&A: Losing the State When Interacting with Family 11:53 Q&A: Brief Opening and Fear of Losing It 15:01 Q&A: Grief, Heart Cracking, and Speaking Truth 22:08 Q&A: Agenda, Rage, Judgment, and the Loud Critic 26:02 Q&A: Stillness, Sparkle in the Eyes, and Wanting Peace Day 4- Evening Self Inquiry Talk- Self-Inquiry Dyads: Don't Miss the Reality of the Illusion

Day 4- Evening Self Inquiry Talk- Self-Inquiry Dyads: Don't Miss the Reality of the Illusion

AwakenTheWorldFilm Wed Jan 10th, 2024

Day 5 self inquiry talk from the online IAM retreat (a 7 day intensive sadhana to realize Samadhi). https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ Day 5 Self Inquiry Talk (live replay)

Day 5 Self Inquiry Talk (live replay)

AwakenTheWorldFilm Mon Jan 1st, 2024

If you are called to awakening join us for our next online 7 day intensive: http://www.awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats 1) The flip from the conditioned "I" to the true self 2) One's true nature is awareness which has always been present 3) A subjective sense of aliveness present, authenticity, realness. 4) Turiya- continuity through waking, dreaming and deep sleep 5) Originality- spontaneous flow of creativity 6) Humility 7) Not caught in the story of the character, preferences, judgements, craving and aversion (freedom from suffering) 8) Behavior that is in service to others All of the above creates a sense of getting the "cosmic joke". All of our films, videos, guided meditations and the online schedule can be found at http://www.awakentheworld.com. 8 Signs of Kensho/Samadhi and how to recognize kensho in oneself and others

8 Signs of Kensho/Samadhi and how to recognize kensho in oneself and others

AwakenTheWorldFilm Sun Jan 8th, 2023

Day 6 self inquiry talk from the online IAM retreat (a 7 day intensive sadhana to realize Samadhi). https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ Day 6- Self inquiry talk (live replay)

Day 6- Self inquiry talk (live replay)

AwakenTheWorldFilm Tue Jan 2nd, 2024

Become a member of AwakenTheWorldFilm Youtube channel to get the full 4K version of this interview, and other full length interviews from the speakers in Awakening Mind Part 1 "Know Thyself". Get more information about the Awakening Mind Film series here: https://www.awakeningmindfilms.com/ If you feel the call to awaken, please join the next 7 day online meditation self inquiry intensive here: https://awakentheworld.com/onlineretreats/ The truth is that all seeking is based on a case of mistaken identity- you were never the character; the human avatar. The character can never awaken or become whole because the human experience is a game of separation (hide and seek). At a certain point in the game it is possible to awaken from the false character to recognize the primordial stillness/awareness that is ever- present. YOU were never in prison- it is only your fixation on thoughts and changing phenomena that has created maya, the illusion of the separate/false self. With a surrender of interest in the entire world of changing forms, and a willingness to move beyond your comfort zone (give up craving and aversion) it is possible to create the conditions for Samadhi to arise. 0:00 Awakening is the Answer to All the World’s Problems 1:14 The Current World is the Culmination of Egoic Consciousness 2:25 Chapter 2: What is Awakening? 3:34 Chapter 3: What is the Benefit of Awakening? 5:30 My Personal Awakening Story at the Zen Center 7:41 Chapter 4: Who Awakens? 9:26 The Difference Between Awakened and Unawakened Experience 11:09 Chapter 5: What is Meditation? 13:15 Chapter 6: What is Self-Inquiry? 18:01 Your True Nature is Closer Than You Think 21:52 The Practices That Make Awakening More Likely 24:20 Chapter 7: The Direct Path vs. The Long Path (Developmental Path) 26:19 Why Purification Matters After Awakening 31:51 What Would the World Look Like if Most People Were Awakened? Daniel Schmidt Interview – Meditation, Self Inquiry, The Pathless Path of Awakening

Daniel Schmidt Interview – Meditation, Self Inquiry, The Pathless Path of Awakening

AwakenTheWorldFilm Wed Oct 11th, 2023

0:00 Overview of Self-Inquiry Dyads 1:26 How to Join and Enter a Dyad 3:33 Inside the Dyad Room 4:55 Roles: Witness vs Inquirer 7:23 Delivering the Imperative 9:03 How to Inquire – Direct Experience 13:09 Sharing What Arises 18:47 Timing and Flow (40 min & 5 min cycles) 20:38 The Neutral Witness 25:42 Ending Your Share & Switching Roles 33:45 The Simplicity and Challenge of the Practice Perpetual Sadhana – Self Inquiry Evening Talk – The "I AM" App

Perpetual Sadhana – Self Inquiry Evening Talk – The "I AM" App

AwakenTheWorldFilm Thu Aug 14th, 2025

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