Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life

The anger that you mentioned, which arose from the insight that “my entire life, as it is, is my doing,” is coming from your mind’s resistance (conscious or unconscious) and judgment of this very insight. Imagine having the exact same insight with absolutely no resistance and no judgment. Take a moment now to imagine it. To take full responsibility

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.

As you say, the ego cannot make awakening or redeeming love happen, but you have never really been that small, limiting idea called ego. Relax into your being—that is the fundamental practice. Who are you beyond being worthy or unworthy? Let all self-image transform into loving presence.

The problem is that behind both of these masks lies not another or better or more spiritual mask, but the direct experience of no mask. And the direct experience of no mask is something that most people avoid with great resolve, because the familiar and morbid comfort of a known identity is preferable to being stripped down to our unknown radiance.

1. Identify the exact thought and emotion that is occurring. As an example: judging thoughts and unworthy emotions. 2. Once the thought and emotion have been identified, remind yourself, This thought and this emotion are not me, nor are they other than me. It is simply the current emotional weather pattern that is occurring. 3. Notice that the current

Whatever the core story is, it is the story (the conclusion) that colors all of our other stories. And like all stories, it covers up the void at the core of the ego structure, the void being our point of connection with the infinite. The ego sees this void as threatening because it provides the way out of the ego structure, which is terrifying to

Meditation will open you to both your inner light and your darkness. Ultimately nothing can be avoided.

Someone in a state of great suffering will naturally want to change their emotional state, but this is different from wanting to change your essential human self. Wanting to change your essential human self is an act of violence. Not wanting to suffer is understandable and natural, but not wanting to be you is violent. I may be overstating the case

It is useful to understand that enlightenment itself is not fixed. It is not limited to any particular insight or moment of awakening; it is also the fluid and dynamic functioning of the totality of conscious life. That is why, with the dawning of enlightenment, there is nothing to attain or grab hold of—there is only the truth as it appears and fu