FOR YOUR PRACTICE:
Prompts: How do you experience the difference between unhelpful inner questioning and helpful questioning?
Inquiry examples – not to engage analysis or proliferation, but openness, caring interest:
When grappling with difficult emotions/states: ‘what is at the heart of this?’
Situational: What am I learning from this?
Present moment questions:
What is here now (Bodily or sense experience being known)?
What’s it like (affective/heart/felt sense)?
Is awareness present (knowing & not-knowing/mystery)?
REFERENCES:
Poems:
The Question, poem by May Swenson
All the Hemispheres, poem by Rumi
Excerpts from:
Letters to a Young Poet, by Rilke (Loving the Questions Themselves)
This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur Riley
MN (Majjhima Nikaya) 2