I'm actually pretty tired of being direct and pointy all the time.
While this blog is full of advice on how you should go about your inquiry, I'd begun to think that maybe the best way to do this was to walk the walk in order to DEMONSTRATE what I've been going on about here in these posts. Because after a few years of guiding, I noticed that it was still a real challenge to communicate exactly what inquiry should look like.
The answer to this million dollar question was often left unresolved and lots of folks remained frustrated.
It's the question I continue to get on a regular basis...
And just when I'd begun to wonder whether I'd ever really be able to answer this in a blog, along comes Ingrid Lill with a wonderful series of inspirational nondual doodles. You can find them all on her facebook page, Ingen Findes but I've got to warn you, they're deceptively powerful little pointers delivered in a new and fresh medium. Why I love this new doodle idea is because like a lot of people who have done "looking" for a while, it seems that reading books can really help structure linear inquiry. But for those of us who are visually oriented, pictures are where the juice is.
Truthfully, I don't know a lot of people who don't respond to visuals, and so Ingrid's doodles hit home in ways words just can't. As soon as I saw them, I wanted to play with the ideas. Soon, I realized that unlike reading articles or books, they were perfect for more focused inquiry as I was free to move into them as deeply as I wanted to without being distracted by the next sentence or paragraph. And they were fun!
The idea went like this: Why don't I just collaborate with Ingrid? I could write out the inquiries inspired by each doodle and post them in a new blog. At the end of the post I could add some pointers or questions they've also inspired. In that way, the blog reader can play along by using the visuals, reading the text, or just plain doing their own thing with either the structured stuff I'd place at the end, or do it freestyle as inpired by Lill.
Seemed rather like a good idea to me. So yeah. Hope you enjoy the new blog.
You'll find it here. It's a joint venture called, With a Lill Inspiration.
Fitting, no?
Now Go Forth and Look!
photo credit: Dark Lil Angel on DeviantArt
"What do you mean by JUST LOOK?!"
And just when I'd begun to wonder whether I'd ever really be able to answer this in a blog, along comes Ingrid Lill with a wonderful series of inspirational nondual doodles. You can find them all on her facebook page, Ingen Findes but I've got to warn you, they're deceptively powerful little pointers delivered in a new and fresh medium. Why I love this new doodle idea is because like a lot of people who have done "looking" for a while, it seems that reading books can really help structure linear inquiry. But for those of us who are visually oriented, pictures are where the juice is.
Truthfully, I don't know a lot of people who don't respond to visuals, and so Ingrid's doodles hit home in ways words just can't. As soon as I saw them, I wanted to play with the ideas. Soon, I realized that unlike reading articles or books, they were perfect for more focused inquiry as I was free to move into them as deeply as I wanted to without being distracted by the next sentence or paragraph. And they were fun!
Along comes an idea!
The idea went like this: Why don't I just collaborate with Ingrid? I could write out the inquiries inspired by each doodle and post them in a new blog. At the end of the post I could add some pointers or questions they've also inspired. In that way, the blog reader can play along by using the visuals, reading the text, or just plain doing their own thing with either the structured stuff I'd place at the end, or do it freestyle as inpired by Lill.
Seemed rather like a good idea to me. So yeah. Hope you enjoy the new blog.
You'll find it here. It's a joint venture called, With a Lill Inspiration.
Fitting, no?
Now Go Forth and Look!
photo credit: Dark Lil Angel on DeviantArt
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thanks for the thoughts...