A Hidden Key to Self-realization – Curious Inquiry
Curiosity unlocks the gate to “the relative as a bridge to the real” and endlessness of revelation and runaway realization.
Reality is the grandmaster of hiding things in plain sight.
The central practice of the Diamond Approach is open and open-ended inquiry, a practice rooted in the power of curiosity, not the asking of questions. Questions are the surface appearance of a deeper dynamic.
Questions and questioning are where many get confused about inquiry. This confusion leads some to conclude that the Diamond Approach is too mental or a head-oriented approach, a perspective contributed to by the mind’s obsession with content and the ego’s compulsion to keep yelling into the echo chamber of its reality.
Even the dictionary points us in the right direction
Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something.
It says nothing about asking a question. Questions are to inquiry like ink is to a story – they allow a book to be printed, read, and engaged – for attention to be captured, for curiosity to be captivated. It’s pure magic and it very much involves the heart.
The fact is that true knowledge just opens up more questions. It just shows you more and more that you do not know. When you have the next insight, you have just found out something, but at that same instant you realize how much more you do not know. And it should continue that way – seeing how much more you do not know, until finally, you realize you do not know anything. When you finally see that you know absolutely nothing then maybe it is possible to be innocent. – A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Four: Indestructible Innocence
Full-throttle, Full-bodied Free-fall into Revelation
This is inquiry when it is not constrained in the conceptual mind and at the mercy of an ego trying to stay one step ahead of reality (how’s that possible?).
Inquiry as spiritual practice has very little to do with finding relative answers, but everything to do with the experience of your soul.
What day of the week is it?
A simple question I often ask myself since retiring. What I’m seeking is not a word, but an orientation. Why is orientation important to me? What happens if I’m not oriented? What are oriented and disoriented like experientially?
In the Diamond Approach, we use psychological exploration to open up spiritual states. Why?
We’re literally trapped in the past, that’s why. Inquiry helps to bring us into immediate contact with what’s trapping us, with the arrested development of our soul, with the chains and shackles of our beliefs and conditioning.
Have you ever noticed that when you see some trap from the past clearly and experientially from the moment’s immediacy, that understanding brings freedom from the past?
Understanding – another hidden gem in consciousness, another key whose power can be camouflaged by a veneer of words.
As you stand on the precipice of self-discovery, remember that curiosity and inquiry are your most trusted guides. They beckon you to question the known and explore the unknown, to peel back the layers of your conditioned self and reveal the radiant essence within. The Diamond Approach offers you a roadmap to navigate this transformative journey. But don’t just take our word for it—experience it for yourself. Let your curiosity lead you into the depths of your own being, and you’ll find that the key to self-realization was within you all along. Are you ready to unlock the door?