The power of questions
In a workshop yesterday, one of the insights people resonated most with is the realization that so much of our life is shaped by the quality of questions we ask ourselves. Zen has a long tradition of enlightment by koan - questions designed to help students break through to new levels of understanding the nature of things.
Some of our questions constrain us while others liberate us. Some evoke moments of gratitude; others evoke moments of ineptitude. Some keep us perfectly stuck; others get us imperfectly moving. When we want questions that empower us, we need to first decide what we want our questions to do for us. Then we can decide what kinds of questions will create this kind of impact.
