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The transformative power of questioning (critical reflexivity), listening, observing and seeing skillfully and from silence, mind-body integration, and from within our experiencing to open and free our minds, achieve more clarity of perception, self-awareness and critical awareness (awareness), create unconditional openness, and transform our discoveries, our
experience of ourselves and the world, our creation of meaning, our communication and
connection in more genuine, free and meaningful, making us more able to see the
human being and what surrounds us beyond words, concepts, language and divisions, and to
see beyond what is already known, habitual, certain and automatic

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Questioning Mind® is a non-profit initiative that encompasses activities and content, dedicated to contributing to a more genuine, human, conscious, sensitive world, with a critical conscience, more humanly connected, and closer to what is essential: the from the great transforming force of a questioning and listening mind, freer, more active, alert, sensitive, creative, and which is open and capable of deconstructing, critically reflecting, observing and skilfully looking, from silence, from experiencing and from our own intelligence

awaring

Becoming aware of, perceiving, discovering or seeing, being sensitive, being attentive, knowing how to observe, reaching a mind free of techniques and that sees, listens, that is anchored in what is being experienced and unfolding, that illuminates and makes transparent what we are experiencing, and not judging what unfolds

mind-body questioning

Integrating mind and body, relaxing the tensions that drive the perceptive process, creating space and opening the senses for clearer, more genuine and accurate perceptions to develop, and for transformative inquiring, discovering, creating and learning

questioning mind

mindful listening

self-awareness (awaring)

critical seeing

meta skills

genuine communication

learning

Let’s learn together?
through lectures, group and individual reflective dialogues, intensive and differentiated courses and programs, and special retreats: all based on our experiencing and practical experience.
Below are some of our courses and activities:

1:1 reflexive individual dialogues

reflexive agendaless group dialogues

reflexive group dialogues

"A gente só é livre quando vê que não pertence a lugar algum — mas sim a qualquer lugar —, lugar algum mesmo. O preço é alto. A recompensa é ótima."

(Maya Angelou)

“Questioning and being aware. These are the most precious teachers. They dwell in the heart of every human being who begins to awaken to the waste and danger of an unexamined life”

(Tarthang Tulku, Knowledge of Freedom, 1984, p. 76) 

“The very seeing of what one is, is the beginning of transformation...”

(J. Krishnamurti, Wholeness of Life, p. 165)

“Listening implies attention. You cannot attend if your mind is chattering, if you compare what is being said with what you already know. So the art of listening is very important. And the art of listening is to communicate.”

(Jiddu Krishnamurti, From Public Talk 1, Sydney, 21 November 1970

“Not knowing is freedom. Knowing is prison.”

(Jiddu Krishnamurti, Tradition and Revolution )

“So, can we ask the right question which will awaken our own intelligence, our own native perception?”

(Jiddu Krishnamurti, Seminar 1 Brockwood Park, England – 12 September 1978)

“Nobody can teach you about yourself except yourself, so you have to be the guru and the disciple yourself and learn from yourself. What you learn from another is not true.“

(Jiddu Krishnamurti, Madras 1971, Talk 3)

Insight is not that you intellectually understand or verbally comprehend what is being said, because truth is something that lies beyond the word. This is the art of listening. … We rarely listen to anybody. We are so full of our conclusions, experiences, problems and judgments that we have no space in which to listen.”

(J. Krishnamurti, The art of looking, listening, learning – In-Depth Article)

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ”

(Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind, 1988, p. 21)

“What determines our judgment, our concepts and reactions, is not what one man is doing now, an individual action, but the whole hurly-burly of human actions, the background against which we see an action”

(Wittgenstein, 1981, no. 567)

“We are involved in the world with others in an inextricable tangle”

(Merleau-Ponty, 1962, p. 454)

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

(Lao Tzu, 604 BC – 531 BC, Chinese Taoist Philosopher)

 

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

(Martha Graham)

 

“Inquiry can proceed from an intention that has nothing to do with the ‘needs’ and ‘concerns’ of ‘the one who questions’. The questions we ask can arise out of wonder and love of knowledge”

(Tarthang Tulku, Love of Knowledge, p. 306)

“As fronteiras da minha linguagem são as fronteiras do meu universo.”

(Ludwig Wittgenstein, livro Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

“Harmoniê aphanês phranerês kreittôn”: “The hidden harmony is deeper, the invisible connection stronger, the inconspicuous correspondence more interesting than the apparent”

(G. Parkes, 1987, Heidegger and Asian Thought, p. 106)

 

“Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”

(Rumi) 

“Whatever inspiration is, it comes from not knowing"

(Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet)

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Lets learn together?
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