Mundane Questions

Mundane questions: 

clearly I have very few answers, and even my questions are fairly mundane in their concerns and require little in the way of deeper contemplation. Life generally handles the details of it's course, providing so much with no real thought or effort of my own. Let's consider the breath for instance, or heartbeat, that the body functions with such precision and skillful rhythm while demanding no conscious act of will for its continuation - this indeed is truly a miracle. Which leads me to a few deeper questions after all, most specifically is what role does consciousness play in any of this, not only for my mind and body, but throughout the universe itself ? How is any of this experienced at all? Clearly these aren't mundane questions and require some greater contemplation. 

this is consider the hard problem of consciousness, asking why we are capable of experience, of being able to even entertain the miracle of breath and heartbeat in my considerations. Great minds are researching this and have yet to provide a satisfying universal answer that is easily accepted by both scientist and philosopher. Of course mystics from all traditions have explored this issue at length and despite some details unique to each, mostly have a perennial agreement. Quantum physics, at reaching a certain point, almost seems to require a mystical explanation to consider, and that's with the role of observer being central and critical for the universe to exist at all. I'll tread lightly here, not wishing to project my own beliefs into scientific matters I barely understand. However, being a hard problem for science doesn't seem so difficult for my own understanding, and perhaps even mundane questions provide some clues and even a few answers to consider. 

so, I'll try.

there is no true and real observer here, no experience found separate from the moment it occurs - the hard problem exist only in its consideration, and even then it's just a thought that belongs to the absence of a thinker. This isn't a stance of hard-line nonduality, although I do find myself in agreement with much that's offered. Really, this is just the simplicity of living, asking these deeper questions and listening while the body replies with easy answers of breath and beating heart. Even mundane questions provides their own seamless answers, an inquiry of any concern reveals the depth and simplicity of living. It's not a hard problem, as we display it's solution all the time. The real and only problem isn't of experience, but of allowing ourselves the pleasure or discomfort of whatever each moment holds without demands for any answers, nor reasons for it to be other than it is right now. Inquiry doesn't require answers, insight comes from revelation and the obviousness of simply asking. 

with this, most truly, there are no mundane questions. 

and clearly, every answer is seamless in it's reply. 

~

Peace, Eric