While the urgent energy of spiritual seeking can end at some point, it's my experience so far that inquiry can't. It's an ever expanding universe of wonder and awe. Well, when inquiry isn't leading up to a headache, that is. And if it's giving me a headache, that's probably a good sign that I'm working it like a logical math problem instead of a simple check of reality.
This brings me to an excellent blog comment on my last post. I see it as an invitation to an
Inquiry Challenge Round.
"This is a textbook case of realizing the difference between actual experience and thought overlay."I'd think that thought overlay is part of actual experience, and that the realising is just another overlay.
"Where this hold true for me, it must also hold true for him."......Must?
- Neony
How and where to start!
I think of inquiry as an art form. Or maybe it's an eternal musical composition. Either way, it's always a good idea for me to not call a session "closed" or "done". Instead, I let it just keep opening doors and before writing out the results of an inquiry here, I've more than likely spent a full week in contemplation
even when I've done these countless times before. Finding a breaking point at which to write is always much more challenging than I expect.
Neony's right. When I look, I see that thought overlay is indeed part of actual experience, and realizing IS just another overlay. Everything is experience. There is no escaping it, even if I think about falling asleep at night and experiencing nothing, that's not true. I can't possibly know whether I've actually missed anything at all.
My recommendation to you, dear reader, is to take none of these inquiries as complete, closed, or finished. Challenge each one and see whether you can take it further.
Because you can. Always.
