The Problem for Teachers of Advaita is How to Say Something About Nothing.

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6. Which is what the mind tries to do. But the mind will never understand it.

I believe that the Greek precept, which was posted at the Oracle at Delphi, saying "Know thyself" is a Western form of a Zen Koan... like the Advaita precept to ask "Who or What Am I?"

I was taught that, when asking oneself this question, to "stay with the question, rather than seeking an answer", rather like repeating a mantra in the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

The Greeks had a term for this - metanoia - literally to go "beyond" (meta) the mind (noia). This is usually mistranslated "repentance" in the New Testament.

A Buddhist friend of mine once quipped: "In Buddhism, there are essentially two paths to liberation/enlightenment: Give up or Give in". Unfortunately, the mind usually has to struggle with these questions before it finally gives up.