Inquiry means investigation, exploration, but mostly it means; wanting to find out. Basically, it is a challenge to what we think we know. We ordinarily believe that we know who we are, what we are, what we are going to do, what life is about and what should happen. Inquiry is to challenge all these things. Do we really know?

If you go into the heart of a question you will find an unknowing. The moment you ask a question about anything, you acknowledge that you do not know and that you also have a sense of what you do not know. Otherwise you would not ask the question.

At its core, Inquiry is the love for the truth and the way of true freedom. So, if our Inquiry is alive and unfolding, we are free.

In this process we have to get out of our own way and let the soul open up and reveal her secrets. Foremost, this process require an attitude of openness, of love for the truth, of curiosity, of courage, of basic trust and kindness towards yourself during the process.

We can take any issue or problem from our daily lives and inquire into it. We simply need to recognize the truth about our present experience and learn the attitudes and skills that will invite the true nature of reality to reveal itself. Through this process, we gradually realize and honor the value of our own experience. We see more clearly the distinction between ordinary knowledge and beliefs, and that of a true understanding gained by following our own inner experience.