Adapted from a Meeting with John Sherman in Ojai, California on August 15, 2006.
The first aspect of self-inquiry is always available to you: to see what you are. That is easy, because you are always here. You cannot deny that. What you are has not changed, and it is unaffected by the story. So what you are, in reality, is the source of that absolute certainty that you exist. Nothing can be said about it, but it can be noticed or felt, intuited, again and again. This that you are is never absent, never unavailable. So, the first aspect of self-inquiry is to, repeatedly, whenever it occurs to you, stop for a second and taste that reality, the ever-present, unchanging, unmoving presence that you are.
