True Meditation by Adyashanti

Author:Adyashanti
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2006-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

What Is a Spiritually Powerful Question?

Meditative self-inquiry is the art of asking a spiritually powerful question. And a question that is spiritually powerful always points us back to ourselves. Because the most important thing that leads to spiritual awakening is to discover who and what we are—to wake up from this dream state, this trance state of identification with ego. And for this awakening to occur, there needs to be some transformative energy that can flash into consciousness. It needs to be an energy that is actually powerful enough to awaken consciousness out of its trance of separateness into the truth of our being. Inquiry is an active engagement with our own experience that can cultivate this flash of spiritual insight.

I want to reiterate that, without inquiry, meditation can lead to a sort of inner disengagement. It can also lead to various meditative states, and entering meditative states is not the same as spiritual awakening. We use inquiry to break free of meditative states and to break free of all the other states that we walk around in as human beings—states which our minds become attached to and identify with.

As I said, the most important thing in spiritual inquiry is to ask the right question. The right question is a question that genuinely has energy for you. In spirituality, the most important thing initially, is to ask yourself, what is the most important thing? What is spirituality about for you? What is the question that’s in your deepest heart? Not the question that someone tells you should be there, not what you’ve learned it should be. But what is the question for you? If you meditate, why are you doing it? What question are you trying to answer?

When you know what that question is, truly and authentically, then you can begin the process of self-inquiry. You can ask yourself that question in a quiet, meditative way and see where it leads you.

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