How can I make Neti Neti a routine habit?

[Jay Ray]

I have watched leo's videos on the Neti Neti technique and I want to make it a habit but I have a few questions

is the Neti Neti technique supposed to be a contemplation exercise using words and saying things like "where is the perceiver?" or "this isn't me". this seems quite different from others forms of meditation where I want to quite my mind. Can I do this while doing basic tasks like waling and driving? 

 is 20 minutes a day a good start? 

should this be more of a repetition thing asking the same body parts and ego parts if they are me or should it try and explore. Is brute repetition key or is it more just sitting and contemplating whatever comes to mind first? 

 

when I first watched his videos on the self, and asking where "I" am at that time I felt confident that I knew where "I" was and that was the head, but then later this conceptual idea loosened a bit and now my conceptual idea is that I am nothing, However I still feel like this could be hiding something. My intellectual idea of my ego is hiding behind my own vale of spiritualty and most likely is still about the same but is just pretending that I am nothing. How should I proceed?   

Any other tips on how to make this a habit and do it regularly?

Thank you 

[The0Self]

Finding the perceiver is always out of reach, because whatever occurs in experience, including an apparent finding, without exception, occurs to the I — so it can’t be found because it can’t be lost. You can do it all day — looking for the one who seems to perceive. If you get stuck, notice that getting stuck occurs to you, refocus on that you, which can’t be found. Just realize, the question itself (Who am I? or whatever) defines your limitation as a separate individual — you don’t know who you are, or you think you know something you don’t know. It will never be answered because it can’t be answered because there is no questioner.

[Nahm]

It’s not a routine, it’s not a habit. 

[Jay Ray]

@The0Self awesome. thank you! 

I should ask myself "who is the one getting stuck?" I am not the one who gets confused, confusion is something that is observed. 

 

[Moksha]

Neti Neti is the ancient Hindu meditation practice of stripping away the layers of your personality, until only Consciousness is left.

It doesn't have to be meditative. You can practice this during your regular day, and notice forms arising that you identify with, but are not pure Consciousness.

Irritated at your wife? What is the source of your irritation? Why do you respond the way you do? Notice the stimulus and the response. It feels automatic, but when you observe more closely, you realize that there is a space between her behavior and your irritation. Similar to the space between two frames in a feature film. The mind perceives the movie as continuous, but it really isn't.

It may be a very small space, but it is there. That space is Consciousness. Simply recognizing the space is the first step to expanding it. The irritation is not who you are. You are not defined by it, nor are you at the mercy of it. You can observe it, and explore it, but you are not it. Neti Neti.

 

[Jay Ray]

@Moksha awesome, thanks!