“You don’t need to find something to cure your separation, you need to lose something. You need to lose your belief in separation. And that’s all you ever need to do, lose your belief that you are this little entity, this Me, that is separate from all the other Mes.”
Adyashanti
Eradicating delusive beliefs involves two key steps: clarity and dissolution. Understand the belief fully, then dismantle it through thoughtful analysis and actual experience. I see this process frequently in my teaching practice.
Any inquiry cycle should begin with a connection to prior knowledge. Students begin by revealing what they think they know about a topic. They need to make their ignorance clear. Consider a lesson on density where students are presented with a scenario: a solid object floating in water. They are then asked what would happen if the object were perforated with several holes. Would it sink, float differently, bob up and down, or remain unchanged?
Students must articulate their reasoning and predictions. When they subsequently observe that the object floats just as it did before, their initial misconceptions are confronted. This experience, coupled with analysis, dispels…
