MASTER CLASS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -- An Explorere's Points to Ponder

• There are answers, and there is no "THE Answer". And that isn't true either. But The Answer would probably look like blank space and sound like silence, except there'd be no-one there to see or hear it. So, while there may be "The Answer", you and I are never going to know it. It is only the arrogance of Ego that claims to know "The Answer".
• The world is uncomfortable about sitting in questions -- it wants Answers. But Answers only pose more Questions. Perhaps creation is trying to tell us something.
• Every Answer is an answer to an infinite number of Questions ... eg. If the answer is 3, the question might be 1+1+1 =.....; or 8-5 =.....; or "How many wise men trekked to Bethlehem?"; ...... you get what I mean. Now think of some questions to which "Me" is your answer. If you stick with this exercise for long enough you will discover that you are the answer to an infinite array of questions. And none of the questions are wrong! And every one of those questions is your question, and so is the answer --"Me". They are yours. Own them
• You, and your present experience, are the Answer to questions you may have forgotten you once asked. Stand in this possibility -- This experience I'm having is the Answer: what might the question have been?" Note everything that occurs to you: accept everything, no matter how absurd it may seem.
• Some questions to a present Answer may have been asked 30 seconds ago, or 30 years ago. The Universe notes every question you ask, and delivers answers when you're ready for them. It's up to each of us to remember what the questions were. The good news is, we cannot get it wrong.
• Consider this possibility -- we have been hooked into assuming that questions come first, followed by answers. What if the reverse is also true? What if Answers came first, and Questions arise from a pre-exisitng Answer. What if every event, thought, utterance, feeling, idea and experience you have is the answer to an un-uttered question? Guess what that question might be? Whatever it is, you'll always be right, because you already know the answer.
• This is an answer: what was the question? Track backwards from the answer to possible questions. The more questions an Answer leads back to, the more useful is the Answer. The fewer questions an Answer leads to, the more important are the Questions. When a bunch of Answers leads back to only one question, you've hit the jackpot... (eg. My Answers one day were  "confusion", "a chest pain", "equanimity" and "deeply caring". The Question to all of them turned out to be "Who am I?")
• Here's a meditation -- create a Context -- eg. "Yes-ness" (but make up one for yourself that is relevant to you now). Now walk backwards from your context towards possible questions that it answers. Notice carefully the questions you find yourself afraid to ask.

Here's another meditation --  Assume each of these answers, and find  questions for yourself that are answered by each one.........

• In my middle
• In the middle of sex
• In the middle of relationship
• In the middle of abundance
• In the middle of scarcity
• In the middle of knowing
• In the middle of uncertainty
• In the middle of feeling
• In the middle of freedom
• In the middle of restriction
• In the middle of experience
• In the middle of all that is

Note any questions that come up more than once, as the source of more than one of the above answers.

When we let go of the false assumption that all questions come before all answers, and get that an Answer can pre-exist all questions about it (ie. Answer first; questions later), the riddle of Creation suddenly becomes clear. God had a thought, and the thought was a question (Who am I?") Then came the Big Bang. But, and this is my point, God - the Answer - preceded the Question (Who am I?) And, by the way, the Answer to that question has never changed.

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We all have a box called Mind.

Most of us crawl inside that box and live there,

But it's not compulsory;

We can choose to live outside the box,

In a quality of being we'll call "Context".

Questions that come from inside the box

Come from the stuff of the mind,

And are limited by the size and content of the mind and its stuff.

Available answers will be, likewise, severely limited.

Questions that arise outside the box,

From Context,

Are potentially infinite,

Being shaped only by the nature of the Context.

Available answers will likewise be expansive.

Whenever a question arises,

Look first at where it's coming from --

From Ego/Mind,

Or from Conscious Awareness.

Questions from the mind

Shrink and shrivel truth into "knowledge".

Questions from Context

Expand and enrich experience into "knowing".

Questions from Mind

Have answers which solidify into "the truth" and limit experience;

Questions from Context

Produce answers which dissolve boundaries and expand possibilities.

There is no room for God in any box,

For God is Love

And Love is Free.