More than any other question in the total shared experience of human consciousness, the question of the unknown is the most unasked. The question of the eternal is the most temporal, shallow. The question of God is the most owned and the least free. Why is that?
How did we end up asking the question of infinity—asking means giving heart, giving the deepest unbiased attention to that which is open, unknown. How come the most total holistic question is asked through images, symbols, beliefs, ideas, experiences, which are all anything but that? Where was it that human consciousness got established in this confidence that there is value in such limited questioning? So that as long as it’s anchored with knowledge, beliefs, religion, scientific disciplines, agendas, descriptions, experiences, leaders, it’s enough to present it to itself, to human consciousness and pretend to be able to drink water from it. Water to the inner life. How come the living water of truth became an exhausting image of denial?
This is the question for you, for me, for humanity to ask. The question is how? How to ask that question? What is the infinite? What is the unknown? What is the eternal? How can that question be asked if not through those images, ideas, beliefs, and all forms of knowledge?
Surprisingly, to me at least, two words came to life in this regard. But in a very different way than these words are used. The first word is faith. What is faith that is not a projection of imagination, a wishful idea, thinking? It is trust. What is trust that is not based on blind seeing? Ask yourself that question and you may find out that it is that which is real, not that which you think is real, not that which you are told is real. So this is the first word.
The second word is prayer. And that question, what is the meaning of that word beyond what is known, what is accepted, came because it was seen that trees, flowers, mountains, rivers , they all pray, they are in total prayer. What is the nature of that state? You can say prayer, you can say meditation, you can say any word as long as you don’t fall into what you think that word means, but you can use the word that holds that question as long as it invites the observation to it as a question.
Question means all it can hold is pure not knowing. That’s what makes a question, an inquiry, unbiased and real. And you may see that prayer is a non-verbal, non-personal state of complete, aimless openness. It’s not even a starting point unless you question. And if you truly question, you never go beyond the start.
The start opens and reveals the reality of the question. Is this question imagined? Is it guided by a mark of destination? Or is it a question that consumes in it all the knowledge and all the capacity to know?
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