Inquiry
The Odoki Method isn’t a therapy. It rather offers some tools that we can, ourselves, use to better understand and engage with our inner life.
Inquiry can be learned on ones own - it takes time, and curiosity. We learn, as we move through the stages of the Method, how to take a more nuanced, and more neuroscientifically accurate, approach to our experience. And thus, gradually (and sometimes suddenly) learn how to suffer less.
Guiding
For many, however, inquiry practice can be (too) hard to learn alone. The nature of the predictive brain (especially concerning inner experience) is that it can be very convincing. This can make it hard for us to even consider looking in the places where our suffering originates.
This is where Odoki Method Guides come in. They’re not therapists - they are there to help guide you in your learning of your own inquiry. You are the one doing the work. They just have some previous experience of how to learn inquiry practice, and of some useful places to look once you have learned it.
Stages
The Method has six stages. People start at different stages, often identified by a guide, then work through as many stages as they feel inclined.