Dontaskme wrote:
questions always demand an answer ....
How do questions alone always demand an answer? To Me, it is people who demand things. Questions can asked for no other reason than just clarification, for example, without any demand at all.
Dontaskme wrote:but answers never need questions so the answer must always be contained in the question
Answers may not never need questions, but how do you propose from this that what follows is
the answer must always be contained in the question?
And, if the answer MUST ALWAYS be contained in the question, as you know it is, then whereabouts in the question Who am I? is the supposed contained answer, and what is that answer?
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:23 pmThe natural curiosity of the human mind has to be tempered with patience since answers are not always as easy to come by as the
questions that precede them.
This thread topic is WHAT MIND IS, and you defined MIND as
Consciousness existing throughout the Universe namely something that has always existed and will always exist so is not only limited to human beings. Consciousness here does not mean brain function but simply ALL THERE IS which is the definition of Universe too ... But now you write, "human mind". Can you explain the contradiction or did you just write this out of habit?
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:23 pmSo sometimes not knowing is paradoxically all one can know.
Not knowing is not all one
can know. But rather not knowing exists, at that moment, for as long as it does. No matter what one does not know, they can discover and/or learn and understand it, thus know it.
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:23 pmAnd there is nothing wrong with that. I see it as a neutral position rather than a negative one.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with not knowing any thing. In fact in can be seen in a positive position, as the more I do not know, then the more I can learn, and thus then the MORE I AM ABLE TO become wiser. The more OPEN I am, the more I able to learn, and so I am able to learn from any experience, no matter how seemingly negative it appears, In fact as long as I am open, then all experiences are positive as I am continually learning from them. No person is born knowing any thing, so until a person has that been exposed to some thing, then there is no way they could possibly have knowledge of it or know it. The only way to learn is through experiences, listening to words being told is experiencing or an experience of some thing.
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:23 pmBut while there will always be more questions than answers knowledge will
increase over time. But one should still be patient rather than expecting truth to come straight away. It will come when it is ready
But truth does come, just about almost, straight away. For example, for any question that the answer is unknown, then the truth, and thus the truthful answer is,
I do not know.
The truth is always here. The open MIND sees and knows truth already. Unfortunately, though, the truth gets twisted, distorted, hidden, prevented, or blocked by people assuming, believing, and/or thinking they know the truth before they actually do. For example, assuming other people will judge me badly if I answer, I do not know, prevents the truth from coming to light. The truth might be some people will judge badly, but if people are judging for just not knowing some thing, then those people are truly distorted people. How do they expect another, even them self, to know some thing if they have never had any experience of it?
The reason people fear "not knowing" is the result of a very poor, so called
"education system". 'Education', once meant
to draw out, the potential within a person. But sadly education has been changed to, "We are going to teach you things and if you are not able to recall a certain amount of what we teach you, then you will fail, and thus you will be labelled as a "failure".