Philosophical self-inquiry meeting

This Meeting Location: (see location explanation below).

Topic: Knowing What You're Not

Objective: Solve the existential riddle (and big problem) of life and death.
Direction: Inquire into the core of being.

• The seeker is he who is in search of himself.
• Give up all questions except one: "Who am I?" After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The "I am" is certain. The "I am this" is not.
• Struggle to find out what you are in reality.
• To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.
• Discover all that you are not—body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that—nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.
• The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search….

~ Nisargadatta's recommended path, from the opening page of I Am That.

The discussions are focused on self-inquiry and structured around a topic or whatever is on your mind.

We meet on alternate Saturdays (occasionally with an extra week between), and since 2013 all meetings were at the Main Alachua County Library ... until 2025. The library system allows us to reserve one meeting room each month in advance, then not until the day of any other meetings. So far this year we haven't been able to reserve rooms in advance at the main library.

We will include locations reserved in advance on these meeting blurbs. For other meetings, we will message members who accept messages as soon on the meeting day as we've been able to reserve a location.

At meetings at the main library, check with the information desk on the 2nd floor for the exact meeting room location.

> Philosophical Self-Inquiry is an unconventional adventure.
> Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
> Self-Inquiry is going within to find answers.
> The general self-inquiry question for each meeting: What are you at the core of your being?