One of the challenges that seekers like me face is that gurus and teachers speak about focussing on Who am I? Whereas our present state is dealing with the (often intense) pain body within. Theres no space for any other contemplation , much less going deep into who am I

That can be frustrating cos you seem to still be on the periphery of the awakening process and not really at the centre of it, closer to the core of your essence

Today it occurred to me that when we deal with the pain body, we know that we are not those emotions or the behavioral patterns that we have unconsciously identified with and got attached to so fervently

We observe the mind that has kept us in the loop and we understand that we are not that mind either.

So in a way, we are practising neti neti (not this, not this) and maybe we are not in the outer circle after all

For all those who think they are "stuck" in a loop that never seems to end 😊😊😊