Meditative Inquiry
A spiritual journey is wide, varied, full of potholes and crossroads, mountains and valleys. It is often surprising.
What started, years ago, as a yearning for a teacher, a sense of belonging, and a desire for a clear, determined direction that answered the never-ending questions has, over the years, transformed into a pathway of individual meditative inquiry, which fuels a state of continual transmutation.
Meditative inquiry is a way of asking questions that frees the mind from conditioned thinking and illuminates our innate wisdom. The hallmark of authentic inner growth lies precisely in the ability to engage in a constant attitude of inquiry, aimed at discovering and overcoming the conditioning imposed on the psychophysical organism by the individual and collective past.
Discovering . . .
a series of short essays exploring:
> the possibility of freedom
la possibilità di libertà
> acts of exclusion
atti di esclusione
> being presence
l'essere presenza
> the delicacy of less
la delicatezza di meno
It is the freedom of inquiry, the willingness to observe each expression of existence, without reactivity or judgment, that flourishes in the freedom of the meditative experience.
Over time, the recognition of no longer feeling like a ‘student’, in the sense of always looking to a teacher for affirmation of inner growth, became a key to opening to a new state of being. Life itself began to affirm a burgeoning expansion.
Meditative inquiry serves as a powerful catalyst for authentic inner growth. It asks much more than the discipline of following pre-established concepts and rituals. It requires clarity of vision and depth of feeling. It embraces healthy doubt as an essential element. It is constant movement in unknown territory, and the willingness to face the fear that can arise. It asks us to touch a source of courage in our hearts.
Embracing meditative inquiry as a significant tool necessitates its proper usage. It is not a cognitive exercise for accumulating knowledge or a method for analysis and judgment. It requires an opening of heart and mind, and an existential ‘yes’ toward being alive.
This practice is not a thirst for information or an intellectual desire. Its validity emerges only when we move past motive, ambition, and intention. It encompasses humility and vulnerability, shifting from the rigid consciousness of "I" to the boundless nature of universal consciousness.
Meditative inquiry ignites a fire that supports a state of continuous presence. Genuine inquiry can not exist without presence.
The true journey is always one that must be undergone in solitude. Along the way, there will be moments when one may feel guided, either by people in our lives or by particular conditions that create opportunities for clarity. Ultimately, however, the choices one makes, the actions taken, are solely our responsibility.
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