Introduction to the Diamond Body Series xi
Acknowledgments xv
Editor's Preface xvii
Note to the Reader xxiii

PART ONE: Mystery and Inquiry
1. Why Inquire? 3
2. Openness in Inquiry 12
3.The Adventure of Being 30
4. Spacecruiser Inquiry 48

PART TWO: The Fundamental Elements of Inquiry
5. Ordinary Knowledge 63
Practice Session: Your Past Experience with Inquiry 73
6. Basic Knowledge 76
Practice Session: Your Experience in the Moment 87
7. Not-Knowing 92
Practice Session: Your Experience of Not-Knowing 100
8. Dynamic Questioning 104
Practice Session: What Limits and Stops Your Questioning 108
Practice Session: Your Experience of Questioning 120
9. Loving the Truth 125
Practice Session: Your Motive for Self-Exploration 128
Practice Session: Your Instinctual Needs and Your Love of the Truth 137
Practice Session: The History of Your Love of the Truth 146
10. The Personal Thread 150
Practice Session: Your Personal Thread 160
11. Journey without a Goal 174
Practice Session: Your Relationship to Goals and Comparison 194

PART THREE: Diamond Guidance
12. Guidance of Being 199
Practice Session: Your Relationship to Inner and Outer Guidance 205
13. True Guidance for Inquiry 209
14. Guidance as Gift to the Soul 222
Practice Session: Your Experience of Guidance 227
15. Guidance and Understanding 236
Practice Session: Your Experience of Understanding 241

PART FOUR: The Essential Aspects in Guidance
16. Inquiry and the Essential Aspects 249
17. Yellow: Joy in Discovery 258
Practice Session: The Presence of Curiosity and Playfulness 267
18. Red: Bold Adventure 269
Practice Session: Discrimination in Your Immediate Experience 276
19. White: Staying the Course 285
Practice Session: Your Ability to Stay with Your Experience 298
20. Green: Attuned Guidance 301
Practice Session: Your Relationship to Difficult Experiences 311
21. Black: The Power of Cutting Through 314
Practice Session: Inner Perceptual Capacities in Your Inquiry 322
22. Knowing in Understanding 332
Practice Session: Your Relationship to Direct Knowing 334
23. Truth in Understanding 341
Practice Session: Your Own View Regarding Objective Truth 343
24. Diamond Clarity 356
Practice Session: Your Capacity for Clarity and Precision in Inquiry 370
25. Focused Inquiry 374
Practice Session: Being Specific in Your Inquiry 386
26. Personal Inquiry 389
Practice Session: Your Personal Involvement with Your Own Inquiry 395
27. Brilliant Inquiry 401
Practice Session: Analysis and Synthesis in Your Inquiry 431

Epilogue 431
Index 435