Question Everything

It's always resonated with me, the saying "question everything".

These days, all of our questions are answered, or we can simply choose which answer "feels right".

Sometimes, throughout our lives, our choices change and we reach realizations and our perceptions may change, often dramatically.

Sometimes a question leads to more, as you double down on finding clarity. This is where the real work begins, and often where most people stop. A phrase, "I can't be arsed" pops up often, or it's too deep, maybe.

So the choice usually ends up with vague answers and beliefs, with a nagging feeling that it doesn't quite feel right.

Finding answers is kind of like shedding skin. It can be overwhelming for the programmed mind, as quite often it goes against preconceived notions. We go on believing things that simply are not accurate and wonder why we feel disconnected from reality.

Akin to "characters" in a play, we create stories and narratives, coupled with previously created coping mechanisms, now outdated and not the full truth.

There are many barriers in place, natural internal defences that keep us safe, as well as the inability for the spoken word to properly exhibit what our emotions are trying to tell us.

Often it takes years of reflection and learning before we get a truly authentic answer that seems logical. One that isn't created from a story, just a clear and undiluted, detoxed, pure stream of thought, with no angle or comfort in mind.

Hard truths are only hard if they are viewed with emotion of self and conditioning. This is perhaps where the balance between heart and mind achieve the most clarity.

Once this way of thinking becomes less "noise based", you become more open to possibility and seeking deeper questions as to the nature of things.

I see it kind of like the comparison between analogue and digital, as an analogy. The difference between black and white, zeros and ones ... and a much more diverse array of colour and meaning.

As a side note, this is perhaps why I believe AI can never replace our true experience, it's only a tool to help us along our path, not replace or create our internal experiences. In our increasingly digitalized world, I see that everything is slowly being replaced and consumed, eradicated by a logical-thinking, data-driven creation. In effect, it draws us further away from our humanity, and the answers that only a human mind and heart are capable of discovering.

I find the statement at the bottom of every AI chatbot somehow amusing, as if all truth has a correct and incorrect answer. To a colour blind person, green will always be blue according to a "normal" person, and you have to make allowances or somehow disregard their experience. Similarly, if someone feels "too much" or "not enough", it is seen as a threat to others, instead of being understood that that is their individual experience. They are pushed and pulled until they are close to what is acceptable, another societal falsehood normalized.

Like monks practicing a different "flavour" of a religion, seeking truth in their chosen religion over many years. Perhaps choosing alternatives over time, in order to fit with their internal truths. Often asking questions based on their programming, instead of their heart and mind balance, the "wise mind".

There exists in all of us, the potential to see things with such clarity and "knowing". Only through a much "deeper" experience of suffering, are we able to allow ourselves the shedding of the falsehoods, of the ego, leaving just the soul, in its purest form, the ability to give us everything that is true.

Whatever wall needs to be broken down, only our selves are able to make this journey, if not in this life then perhaps the next.

Asking the right questions will lead us towards a better experience of both ourselves and the world we experience.