Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life

First, the ego-mind is magnetically drawn to negativity because that is what sustains its point of view. Negativity by its very nature is magnetic; it pulls everything in toward itself much like physical mass creates gravity. Second, negativity is looking for resolution and release. All forms of suffering seek to be free from the grip of sorrow. So

Experiencing unity is a bit like getting a joke. The “getting” of a joke is what causes the laughter. In a sense, the getting is the laughter. But we don’t laugh because we have analyzed the joke and come to understand it—we laugh because the joke exposes something about ourselves. It removes the seriousness of the boundaries that we believe in and

Sacred inquiry is using the power of focused attention and curiosity in order to spark greater insight and experiential understanding. It is a way of using the mind in order to go beyond the mind.

Here is the direct answer to your question: Simply contemplate the question, What is the world? By contemplate, I mean to simply form the question in your mind. Don’t think about it. Just present the question and relax your awareness as much as possible. That’s the “how.”

One does not need to seek out one’s demons in an endless pursuit of self-improvement. We simply need to face whatever arises with an honest, open, and inquiring mind and heart.

Even to wish you had no thoughts is still a thought. Imagine that the presence or absence of thoughts means nothing, is of no importance at all. You are not those thoughts. As soon as you allow thoughts to be there, they will have no power to bother you. It is your resistance to and indulgence in thought that creates so many thoughts.

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.

Stillness, in its most spontaneous and authentic sense, is a state of nonresistance. It is not stillness in the conventional sense of non-movement, but in the sense of non-interference by the ego-self.

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