The Questioning Mind

I remember, jiddu said that beauty will take place after suffering. :slightly_smiling_face:

It’s the ‘after’ that worries me. :wink:

I did not get what you have said. can you explain?

Alright, without the word, what is suffering? Does psychological suffering exist without the word and all the memories behind the word?

In other words, to get to the beauty you need to go through the suffering, and suffering hurts.

Hair shirts?..self-flaggelation?

As fun as self-torture might be, I don’t think it’s quite what Jiddu had in mind! He was talking about recognizing and opening ourselves to the suffering we normally repress.

The brain…

Where exactly is this awareness?

But at what point or at what moment in the brain? The brain is a vast network of connections. What shows the brain it is limited, regardless of how vast and impressive it may be?

The evidence…

No, it already has all the evidence. I know I am limited. But it doesn’t stop me trying to find other evidence that I am not that. The evidence only acts as a spur to further acts of irresponsibility.

Speak for yourself…

I am not speaking for anyone. I am asking a question: at what point does the limited brain realise the full implication of its own limitations? That’s all. At what point? The evidence doesn’t do it; meditation doesn’t do it; analysis doesn’t do it. So - what?

I don’t know. Do you?

I also don’t know. But I refuse to stop there. That’s another dead end.

Good for you. I haven’t stopped, either. The only dead end is death.

What good does it do to be impatient? Since when is impatience a virtue? You’ve talked about demanding this or that, but where has it gotten you?

It is not about patience or impatience. Are we demanding freedom from all limitation? A psychological demand or order which says, ‘I must be free of this! Otherwise, I may as well be dead.’ The evidence is clear that I am limited and therefore caught in a perpetual cycle of psychological stupidity. I know all this, but the knowledge of it changes nothing.

So is there an action which has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing?

You see, a mind that puts this question has already gone far beyond any concern with its own suffering.

I don’t know and neither do you.

a mind that puts this question has already gone far beyond any concern with its own suffering.

So you say. I don’t know.

Not sure I understand what you mean.