Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life

Give your full consent to your circumstance. Resist not, grasp not, move not. Do not be frightened by hell or tempted by heaven. Only then are you no longer susceptible to either demons or gods. Only then will all dreams naturally cease.

Without conflict and opposition, the ego meets its own emptiness—not in the sense of being bad or deficient, but in the sense of being only an image in opposition with itself. In the willingness to stop asserting and/or denying the ego, you come to see that the ego has no fundamental substance to it, that it is empty of true nature. But be very car

What if you just stopped trying to justify your existence by either compulsively doing or attaching to not-doing? Who are you then?

What begins to break the addiction to the imagined future is profound dissatisfaction and a willingness to take full responsibility for one’s own life—not blame, but responsibility. We just stop colluding with illusion, not because we should, but because we are done with feeding it. We are done with indulging and supporting the cause of suffering.

The egocentric orientation is forever dissatisfied and anticipating the next moment, hoping that it will bring something better. This is the vicious circular delusion that the egocentric mind is addicted to.

We often imagine that the solution to a problem is to experience its opposite—like going from not trusting life to trusting it. But can you see that both trusting and not trusting life are means of protecting oneself, of giving oneself comfort? What happens when you neither trust nor do not trust life? What is life like when you are not experiencin

A body is no problem. It is only the way that the ego mind identifies “exclusively” with a particular body that is problematic.

At any moment you may need to act, decide, discriminate, make a judgment, etc. Any of these actions may seem to come from a solid self, but upon deeper investigation, any self-sense is but a temporary, changing, and fluid form of consciousness.

The way to see through specialness starts by acknowledging it as it arises. See it as false as it arises—simply an ego-minded identity. Don’t resist it, and don’t engage it. Just see it until you see through. It is nothing more than a thought arising, just a single thought—no substance to it at all. Just be the prior ground from which it arises. Wh