Here we go!
Here, what is self-investigation? This expression "self-investigation" would be better used as self-observation, since here it's not about trying to find out something secret, which was hidden, which we don't know. It's not this! It's not like that!
So, the expression "self-investigation" isn't an appropriate expression for this work. Here, the best expression would be "self-observation," since what we are dealing with isn't a secret. It isn't hidden. It's not something really veiled.
We are dealing with something present. Although it's present, it's not recognized. And for this recognition, self-observation is enough. Then, you need first to observe yourself, to find out these "layers" which, apparently, hide, which are apparently veiling, your own Being. Here, it's about the acknowledgment of your own Being, and your Being is not veiled, is not really hidden.
Then, the word "self-observation," and we can interchange that with self-investigation… It's ok. That's fine. However, it must be seen under this proposal. Start observing yourself. Start observing your reactions. Start observing the thoughts present, the feelings present, the emotions arising along with these thoughts, as well as the sensations arising… Once you start becoming conscious of yourself through this self-observation or self-investigation, What is here "shows itself," What is already present here "reveals itself."
So, the purpose is to work on this. Human beings have been suffering for millennia because of this lack of self-observation.
We live as human creatures, identified with the old psychological conditioning model. So, this condition is a self-projection condition idealized by beliefs, idealized by imaginary motivations. Then, this misidentification state is the suffering state.
Self-Realization, and this is when this self-observation becomes important, which we may now also call self-investigation as we understand what it represents, this is something essential, fundamental. Observing yourself, observing what's going on, and disidentifying with this, in order to recognize yourself in your own Being is essential. Identified with thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations, you are identified with an illusory personality, with a false identity.
This false identity, this illusory identity is the basis of all the suffering, all the contradiction, conflict and misery. The Realization of your Being is the end of this mistaken identification with this false center.
Some people call it Enlightenment or Realization of God. So, discovering What We Are means the simple acknowledgment of What is already here, here and now, present, when this false center is no longer operating, when this illusion of a separate identity is no longer present.
Then, self-investigation is the basis for Meditation. I talk about Real Meditation, not about what has been known as "meditation."
Real Meditation is only possible in this self-observation. So, this so-called "practice of meditation" isn't real Meditation. Meditation has the purpose of showing you the Truth of your own Being, of clearing this Truth of your own Being. For that, the way needs to be paved. This egoic mind needs to be seen. It needs to be recognized. It needs to be verified. Then, self-observation is the end for this identification with the egoic mind condition, and this is the base of Real Meditation.
Right now, I've been talking to you about this, the importance of Meditation and what Real Meditation represents. So, we can never separate self-investigation or self-observation from Meditation. The work happens simultaneously. If there isn't self-observation, there isn't Real Meditation, since Real Meditation is only possible when you become aware of yourself, of all this internal movement, which are thoughts' movements. Disidentified with this movement, disidentified with these thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations, it's possible the recognition of something that transcends mind and body.
That's when Meditation is possible. I talk about day-by-day Meditation. I mean Meditation in a different way of this concept known as meditating. Ok?
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