Best questions for introspection?

[Stick]

what are the best questions to ask ourselves? the best ones, I will ask my self tonight lol

[WonderSeeker]

Depends on what you want to know.

"What do I want to know?"

"What's something that bothers me and how can I get to the bottom of it?"

"What do I want out of life?"

People are gonna flood this thread with what they think is best. But I'd start with you. What do you want to know personally?

Edited 9 hours ago by WonderSeeker

[Leo Gura]

You need to be asking whatever is most interesting to you.

It does no good asking questions you don't care about.

[Rishabh R]

@Stick In my experience asking these questions is great.

How do I live the best life possible ?

What is the most wisest way to live life ?

What if I'm wrong ? 

[Stick]

Dang! Thanks so much for the replies but it seems like I have failed to translate my intention into words.
I meant that I was gonna do meditation today and what would be the best question to be more aware. 
things like "Am I aware?" or "Where are these thoughts coming from" work really great but I would love to view what kind of questions you guys have stacked in your resume after years of this work.
Cheers!!

[Human Mint]

With introspection?

I would go with questions like:

How is best to do introspection? What is keeping me from doing good introspection? Where can this lead me?

I personally like those more general questions.

[Hojo]

How can I know the qualia of nothing if it dosent exist in physical reality.

[UnbornTao]

8 hours ago, Stick said:

what are the best questions to ask ourselves?

Ask that. But your assessment of 'best' will be decided according to your own criteria, based on your personal values.

Make it real and about your experience.

For example: What is pain? Look into that as you sit bored and pained by having no distractions.

Edited 1 hour ago by UnbornTao

[Sincerity]

6 hours ago, Stick said:

Dang! Thanks so much for the replies but it seems like I have failed to translate my intention into words.
I meant that I was gonna do meditation today and what would be the best question to be more aware. 
things like "Am I aware?" or "Where are these thoughts coming from" work really great but I would love to view what kind of questions you guys have stacked in your resume after years of this work.
Cheers!!

What am I?

It’s the #1, bullseye question for me. But one meditation ain’t gonna do nothing. It takes practice.

Optionally: Who is seeing this thought?

Edited 21 minutes ago by Sincerity

[UnbornTao]

4 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

What am I?

It’s the #1, bullseye question for me. But one meditation ain’t gonna do nothing. It takes practice.

'Who' first.

[Sincerity]

Just now, UnbornTao said:

'Who' first.

Doesn’t resonate. „What” works.  

[UnbornTao]

6 hours ago, Stick said:

Dang! Thanks so much for the replies but it seems like I have failed to translate my intention into words.
I meant that I was gonna do meditation today and what would be the best question to be more aware. 
things like "Am I aware?" or "Where are these thoughts coming from" work really great but I would love to view what kind of questions you guys have stacked in your resume after years of this work.
Cheers!!

If it is a meditation, then maybe focus on "what is the act of being aware of being aware?"

Or again, focus on what's present in your experience now. Just pay attention and "ask" what is there - not intellectually but actually.

Maybe it's just boredom, it doesn't have to be transcendental or fancy, just what is really going on for you.

[UnbornTao]

4 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

Doesn’t resonate. „What” works.  

"Who's the tree that is asking?" before considering what the nature of that tree is - kind of thing. If we start with what resonates the investigation is already biased from the beginning.

As an aside, if we use the question in the background to subtly validate our own already-established "knowledge," it's not really a question but a confirmation of preference, ideas, etc.

[Sincerity]

10 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

If it is a meditation, then maybe focus on "what is the act of being aware of being aware?"

That’s rather convoluted to me. Why not go direct?

Are you genuinely getting value out of this? (Whatever value means for you)

[Sincerity]

4 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

If we start with what resonates the investigation is already biased from the beginning.

Nonsense. You only ever follow what resonates. If it doesn’t resonate, reality will not move that route, until it does.

Edited just now by Sincerity