No Questions Exist

Q: Can you comment on “you're making up the story... out of your own imagination”? How can “you” make up a story about a person that isn't there?  If there isn't anyone there, then where does the story come from?  Who/what believes the story?  Who/what imagines it?  If the person isn't real, then how can there be awareness of it? 

Many thanks.

A: These questions about how it all goes together are unanswerable. They are unanswerable because they refer to something that doesn’t exist. So the mind wants to say, Yeah well it must be a bogus teaching, then, if it can’t even answer the big questions. That’s right, it is bogus to the mind, which doesn’t exist!

But once you take the pointers offered, which point out of the mind entirely, out of the story entirely, and see that where you are really standing is outside of all constructs, something interesting happens: the mind, the self, and the story disappear. Along with the disappearance of them goes the disappearance of all questions associated with them. So why don’t you try this instead? Follow the pointers that say: don’t look within the story; see that you are already outside the story and always have been.

There is no answer to the question you asked. No answer to that question can ever be had. If you are offered one, it is simply somebody stringing you along with the hopeful thought that your questions will be answered, and that this will somehow free you. It will not. You can spend your whole life being strung along in this way, because the questions offered up by the mind are infinite. Or, you can see that the advice being shared here and elsewhere is to let go of the obsession with the mind, and just be what you already are – mindless, empty, and infinite.

Don’t try to get any more questions answered. No answers have helped you so far. The only thing that ends questioning is getting out of that cycle of insistence that just one more puzzle piece needs to be cleared up before you can advance to the real truth. There are no puzzle pieces, and there is no truth. There is no you to advance anywhere.

See that where you are, what you are, who you are, is outside of all content, outside of all structure – formless, shapeless, timeless. There is only emptiness – this emptiness that you notice now when you look at what is present. This emptiness, this stillness, is all there is.

Let yourself be nothing at all. This is what you are. No intellect, no logic, no mind. Just formless, shapeless consciousness, here now. You can notice this right now, and this is what is being pointed to. You are this formlessness.

As this, what happens to the question you asked?