Self-Inquiry with Vala Kondo-Legan, August 10, 2025

Again working from our on-going Sunday quote for the month of August:

 

“To go very far, you must begin very near.

But that is very difficult for most of us

because we want to escape from

“what is” ; from the fact of what we are.“

The group posed an initial question: “

Aren’t “escapes”, themselves, also “that Which iS”?

The question was developed further in the observation that

“We do not see that we are escape artists”

It was observed that “partial seeing” can/ does occur, when part of the problem, is  felt, seen.

A comparison was made to ordinary situations where “partial” success

leads one closer to an objective,

Yet, “Partial seeing” does NOT bring one closer to total seeing.

This phenomenon is not perceived.

Inquiry then focused on “hope”, which was observed to exists only in the past or future, never in the now. “Fear” and “Hope” were observed to be the same, with both positing a known outcome and neither allowing the actuality of “not knowing”.

The sensation of “I don’t know” was seen linked to the limitation of the mind.

 

—Vala Kondo-Legan