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“Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.“
André Gide

“Enquiry involves looking deeply into our own experience, perceptions and thoughts, and recognizing and questioning them. People are generally set in their ways when it comes to perceiving the world and themselves. They tend to act and react in the same pattern, which causes pain both to themselves and to others. Enquiry gives true insight into what is happening. It will make you examine how you are feeling, thinking and behaving, and lead you to question the causes and effects of your actions.”
Martine Batchelor

“Now, whether we follow the Indo-Tibetan analytical approach or the Zen approach of asking a koan like “What is this?”, such meditative inquiry leads to a mind that becomes more still and clear. But paradoxically, this does not mean that things then become more clear-cut, that you reach some final understanding of who you are, or what makes the universe tick. As things become more vivid and clear, they also become more perplexing. A deep agnosticism would be one founded on this kind of unknowing: the acknowledgement that, in terms of what life is, I simply do not know. In such unknowing, there is already a quality of questioning, of perplexity. And as the perplexity becomes stabilized through meditation, one comes to inhabit a world that is mysterious, in a sense magical, in the lived sense not reducible to things, ideas or concepts.“
Stephen Batchelor

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