What is the best spiritual approach that is appropriate for self-inquiry?
It is an attitude, almost like a ‘mudra’, in that it is a position of awareness or observation. It is actively passive in that the Yin/allowing attitude is consistent and unwavering. One should not ‘try’ to see the obvious but merely remove all obstacles, such as opinions, beliefs, mental categories, commentaries, impatience, or attempts by the mind to anticipate or control the next split second.
As children, we have all tried to ‘see the hidden picture’ in some pictorial art form, and when we stopped trying, it revealed itself; the bush suddenly became obviously a smiling lion, for example. To ‘try’ results in reinforcement of perception and narrowing of vision and, therefore, greater limitation.
It is a paradox to look for the invisible. It is more like an identification that takes place with All That Is and the very substrate of existence. By observation, it becomes clear that all emotional/mental/conceptual phenomena are spontaneously happening on their own and that there is no person as such causing them.
The Self is the total field and all its contents as well. Consciousness is the quality by which the Self is konwn, knowable, and expressed. Gos is All That Is, without any exclusion-sight, sound, space, objects, form, formless, visible, invisible, solid, liquid, without dimension or location, and everywhere equal. There is no opposite to God. God is both Allness and voidness, equally form and nonform.
The Eye of the I, David Hawkins, Page 194
