There is an answer to every one of man’s historical, “unanswerable questions.” It resides in a territory that is operationally unknown to ordinary mentation, regardless of a man’s I.Q., education, or professional expertise, all of which measure life within the strict boundaries of their conclusions being either: true or false.
Without a clear, perceivable distinction between what is true and what is not, man’s thinking would be totally useless. Mental consciousness would in no way benefit his survival. But if to this thing you are truly born, you will never fulfill your potential to see that to which collective humanity is blind. If you remain mentally grazing in the moot field of: true or false, for even though thoughts may not be making such a distinction at any given moment in a particular situation, the mind itself runs off of the unending, flipping and flopping of: “Well, on one hand this could be so, but on the other hand, it can’t be.”
There is a third hand that is never seen, which is the one that can grab itself and put an instant halt to this endless and meaningless chase. You are hungry: true, (with no need for any comment or analysis). You wonder if there is a purpose to live, other than just eating, and your thoughts immediately respond to their own question by saying that there either is some metaphysical purpose or that there is not. But neither of these is correct, nor are they not correct, and this is not merely a verbal grab-ass-gam. In the land of clarity, it is literally so, but not so that can be literally described.
All that is verbally available and potentially useful, is the straight ahead statement that: nothing you ever think of that has no physical existence, has any characteristic of being true or false. Prayer is not true or false; reputation is not true or false; good and evil are not true or false, (and on the grown-up’s-menu is the more adult dish of: true and false are not true or false).
Remind yourself, and be fully assured that this is not simply sophomoric, playing-with-words. The relentless struggle to make your thinking see beyond the fences, which stake out the mental fields of true and false, is no mere game…well it is, but for a few, its potential payoff is inestimable. The relentless struggle to make your thinking see beyond the fences, which stake out the mental fields of: true and false is no mere game…well it is, but for a few, its potential payoff is inestimable. Once you find your way there and stand in the mental acreage beyond the fenced in areas of true and false, everything becomes clear. It is the mouth that can swallow itself, leaving self, leaving nothing behind but a silent, polite burp of total contentment.
(Note…even a miraculous mouth must be periodically attended.)
J.