The Beauty and Magic of Inquiry

This short video by Diamond Approach teacher Dominic Liber offers a taste of the clarity, immediacy, authenticity and excitement that the practice of inquiry can bring. 

Inquiry practice begins by being curious about why we think the things we do, react to certain situations, feel the way we feel, and act in certain ways. As we delve into our experience in real time, as we open these questions up and become clearer about our motivations, we begin to realize that sometimes they arise from our essential beingness, but other times they are influenced more by our history. And we realize that our historic patterns may no longer feel needed or true. 

It takes time and practice to develop our capacity for inquiry, to develop our in-touchness, our contact with our feelings and our body, the felt sense of our consciousness itself. But what we glean from this process can release us from those automatic patterns of our conditionings and old beliefs, allowing our true nature to be free and unbounded. The magic doesn’t come from an intellectual exercise, but from the live experience of the inquiry—what we are sensing, understanding, and feeling right in the moment.