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When is asking questions impeccable and/or when is it being used as a didactic devise, a prompt, a rebuttal, as support, to the person asking the question? Sometimes when I post and the responder asks me a question, the question feels clean and honest, as though the person really wants an answer.
Other times, when asked a question, it feels leading and insinuating, as though the question is loaded with the posters assumptions.
What to do with "questions"? Answer, ignore, read between-the-lines, counter with another question....
There was a long time in which I felt my prolific question asking was driven by a learning curve. And to some extent that was true. Then I began to see that my question asking served as a shield in order to not really hear any answer that might come forth but to reinforce what I thought anyway. I began to pay more attention to questions....and wonder how others view "asking questions".
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There's an old Zen saying that the answer lies in the question.
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Great quote!...
when you don't have any answers of your own
The truth lies in the lie, right?
Yes, that's so!
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Jessicar wrote:When is asking questions impeccable and/or when is it being used as a didactic devise, a prompt, a rebuttal, as support, to the person asking the question? Sometimes when I post and the responder asks me a question, the question feels clean and honest, as though the person really wants an answer.
Other times, when asked a question, it feels leading and insinuating, as though the question is loaded with the posters assumptions.
What to do with "questions"? Answer, ignore, read between-the-lines, counter with another question....
There was a long time in which I felt my prolific question asking was driven by a learning curve. And to some extent that was true. Then I began to see that my question asking served as a shield in order to not really hear any answer that might come forth but to reinforce what I thought anyway. I began to pay more attention to questions....and wonder how others view "asking questions".
In my opinion, it all depends on what you are asking questions for. If you are trying to get into some woman's panties your questions would be different than if you want something else. You wouldn't think of asking metaphysical questions of an average Walmart employee, right. So, the type of questions should depend on what exactly it is you want from an answer.
New Ager types are typical humans in that humans are always looking for the 'quick fix'. Unfortunately, no matter how easy the Spirit makes things for me I still have to suffer in order to pay for what I receive. Suffering, I have found, is the currency of the Spirit and I have found no way around that.
In general, I would say that the Hindu quote is apropo of your postulations:
"The answer is found in your naval. So don't bother looking for it in your army, marines or your airforce"
Just mocking the Gonzo
Actually, you can't expect to control the quality of the questions of others, but you do indeed have control over YOUR OWN question. An excellent person asks excellent questions. A dumb person asks dumb questions. I say: always strive to be the very best you can possibly be at any given moment. Refine the quality of your questions to make them simple, direct and to the point. Most of all, be sure and radiate tremendous gratitude and appreciation for the wonderful answers that come to you as a result of your asking wonderful questions.
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Sacateca wrote:you do indeed have control over YOUR OWN questions. always strive to be the very best you can possibly be at any given moment. Refine the quality of your questions to make them simple, direct and to the point. Most of all, be sure and radiate tremendous gratitude and appreciation for the wonderful answers that come to you as a result of your asking wonderful questions.
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A **** asks retarded questions
A moron asks moronic questions
An ignorant person asks ignorant questions
An intelligent person asks intelligent questions
A wise person asks wise questions
A genius asks geniusly inspired questions
So, the real question is:
who are you and who do you want to be on this spectrum?
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There's an old Zen saying that the answer lies in the question.
Is that so?
I never understood this koan.
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Ninth:
The asking of an ultimately serious question, which means to be seized
in turn by an ultimately serious quest, reshapes our concepts in favor
of the kind of perception needed to "see" the desired answer.
To be
given ears to hear and eyes to see is to have one's concepts changed in
favor of the discipline. A question determines and brings about its
answer just as the desired end shapes the nature of the kind of
questions asked.
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Taken from Bob May---(out of context for what Bob was talking about, but it fit so well here, too):
This is how it works. The Spirit which knows better than us what we need, puts a question in our ear.
The
answer jumps out at us from Scripture or the world around us or both
and we get confirmation of that which we needed to know. Even if we
didn't know we needed it or were too stupid to ask the question.
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Jessicar wrote:There's an old Zen saying that the answer lies in the question.
Is that so?
I never understood this koan.
Two different items here. In regard the first, imo it has to do with questions of a spiritual nature. For example, "Why am I here?"..."What's the purpose of my existence?"..."What happens when I die?"..."Who am I, really?", and the comment means only that the one who asks is the only one who can answer. In a similar fashion, asking if Castaneda is full of ****, or if don Juan really existed, once again, there is no answer, only whatever opinion the asker is comfortable with. The same is really true of all spiritual teachings, actually. Bottom line, from another Zen quip, "Beware of seeking the truth by others."
In regard "Is that so?", it's a reference to a famous story about Hakuin and readily available on the Internet via a Google search.
In my opinion, many times questions are asked because they imply the asker has achieved a certain level of understanding and is seeking validation.
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GONZO WROTE:
"Two different items here. In regard the first, imo it has to do with
questions of a spiritual nature. For example, "Why am I
here?"..."What's the purpose of my existence?"..."What happens when I
die?"..."Who am I, really?", and the comment means only that the one
who asks is the only one who can answer."
MY RESPONSE:
I disagree. There is a source of problems and solutions in the universe. It has the answers to all questions we care to ask. The thing is that the silent sea of knowledge does not yield its secrets easily. You must earn the gifts of the Spirit. Answers to life's questions are indeed gifts of the Spirit. I have received answers to certain questions. I'm still testing these answers. The answers may be modified as more truth is revealed.
"Why am I here?"
I am here as a reverse-vacation from being in a realm where wonderful things come too easily
"What's the purpose of my existence?"
To have as much fun as I can advancing to the highest point thus realizing my fullest potential in all the wonderful things I may choose to do with my life
"What happens when I
die?"
The essence of the life I lived will come back around for me so it is to my overall advantage to live a full, rich, strong, healthy, generous and grateful life
"Who am I, really?"
I am God equal to everyone and everything. It's all made of the exact same energy. I am God, you are God, everything is God; pure perfect thought in forms that APPEAR solid
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Thanks for your response on both Gonzo.
When I replace the word 'koan' with 'question' in the cut and paste below from Hakuin (Wikipedia) I like it as an answer to my original questions:
The most important and influential teaching of Hakuin was his emphasis on, and systematization of, practice. Hakuin deeply believed that the most effective way for a student to achieve insight was through extensive meditation on a koan. The psychological pressure and doubt
that comes when one struggles with a koan is meant to create tension
that leads to awakening. Hakuin called this the "great doubt", writing,
"At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully,
you will awaken fully". Only with incessant investigation of their koan
will a student be able to become one with the koan, and attain
enlightenment.
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Sacateca:
Answers to life's questions are indeed gifts of the Spirit. I have
received answers to certain questions. I'm still testing these answers.
The answers may be modified as more truth is revealed.
Yes! I agree. Except that my answers are different than yours. Doesn't matter though. When you ask, then get an answer, and it's a fit for you, it is indeed a gift of the Spirit.
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Sacateca wrote:
A **** asks retarded questions
A moron asks moronic questions
An ignorant person asks ignorant questions
An intelligent person asks intelligent questions
A wise person asks wise questions
A genius asks geniusly inspired questions
So, the real question is:
who are you and who do you want to be on this spectrum?
Castaneda took his notes and wrote his books by asking DJ numerously simple silly questions.
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[b][b][b][b][b]Jessicar[/b][/b][/b][/b] wrote:[/b]
Ninth:
The asking of an ultimately serious question, which means to be seized in turn by an ultimately serious quest, reshapes our concepts in favor of the kind of perception needed to "see" the desired answer.
To be given ears to hear and eyes to see is to have one's concepts changed in favor of the discipline. A question determines and brings about its answer just as the desired end shapes the nature of the kind of questions asked.
This is from the book "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg"' by Pierce. I often asked questions to eventually rearrange MY perception on something or someone. Objective questions opens the door for more diversity in seeing varying perspectives. In subjective questioning being vulnerable enough to have asked and confident enough not to expect the answer. The active waiting, the serious quest, opens up the wings of perception.
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ninth octave wrote:Sacateca wrote:
A **** asks retarded questions
A moron asks moronic questions
An ignorant person asks ignorant questions
An intelligent person asks intelligent questions
A wise person asks wise questions
A genius asks geniusly inspired questions
So, the real question is:
who are you and who do you want to be on this spectrum?
Castaneda took his notes and wrote his books by asking DJ numerously simple silly questions.
It's called a literary device. "But HOW do we *** off, don Juan?"
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