Email to a nondual coaching client:

I want to begin by focusing on and acknowledging the power and force with which you are willing to inquire into your own true nature, into awareness itself.  As you told me on the phone, you thought, in the beginning that this practice was all about losing weight, and now that does not appear to be true at all!

So the nature of inquiry is very very simple, because it is not happening in the mind. And it is not based on anything you think you know, because whatever you think you know is a concept, a mental formulation, and not awareness, which is unknowable by the mind, because it is not an object.

I suggest you begin your inquiry, every time, with this: Do I really understand that awareness is not an object? What kind of assumptions am I making about the nature of awareness?

And then, when a thought feeling of emotion arises, just ask, “What is feeling this?” or “What is perceiving this?”

And if you want to approach it from a slightly different angle, just ask, “What is this awareness? This awareness that is right here, now, that I cannot taste or touch or grasp with my mind? What is it?”

And notice that any ideas you have about where it might or might not be located are simply ideas..and come back to resting in not-knowing..Just resting in the simple feeling of not-knowing.