Without Asking

Without answers: 

inquiry opens us to a world without answers, or more so to a world without absolute need for answers - to ask "who am I?" is to give the request to silence, allowing ourselves to return to the original point of not knowing, being spacious, and open to any possibility. We inquire, asking questions regarding our true nature, mysteries of the world, and immediately surrender to our own revelation of silence. The inquiry itself contains our answers.

so what is the revelation?

who are we?

simply ask.

listen.

we are without answers, or at least not ones that lend themselves so easily to words. At first we are given the quick response of identity, name, career, and every social status. Yet those are labels, or actions we perform. Not one reveals who we are. This is a process of dismissal, of not accepting the easy return of what's apparent, there is no term nor role that contains a truthful answers.

so we return to asking.

dismissing.

until...

yes, until...nothing - because certainly there is no answer, inquiry is an endless revelation of show, shifting us from seekers in search of definitive knowledge to explores of all that's readily shown. Asking for a revelation is to accept the immediacy of its mystery. 

and we are given a lifetime to explore.

without answers,

there's just the asking...

~

Peace, Eric