Questions and Answers

4 + 3 = 7

The left hand side of the equation is equal to the right hand side of the equation.
The same principle can be applied to virtually all questions and answers.
By understanding the question(left side), we have the answer(right side).
The question is equal to the answer.

One cannot even formulate a question if he’s not aware of the answer that the question is seeking.
One does not ask if cows are green when he wishes to know about sports cars.

As such, an extremely useful spiritual practice is to observe, document and analyze our questions. Explore the field that they have arisen out of.

Can I move on? = Courage
Can I remain unbiased? = Neutrality
Can I deal with this? = Acceptance
Should I go on? = Willingness
What does it mean? = Reason

Question = The Field

Then there are also fields that bring about questions of less integrity:

Am I better than you? = Pride
Why don’t I get what I want? = Anger
Can I have it? = Desire
Is it safe? = Fear
Can I ever be more than my mistakes? = Guilt

It is extremely useful to examine the field that a question arises from.
The only acceptable answer to any question is going to be one that arises out of the same field.
For those familiar with the Map of Consciousness, it is an especially helpful reference:


Between 500 and 600 there is a massive drop-off when it comes to the arising of questions. Beyond 600 it becomes very apparent that Truth can only be validated by identity with it and not by knowing about it. Complete surrender of one’s beingness to the Allness of existence is the process which carries him further. Contemplation occurs spontaneously, but there is no longer attatchment to questions or answers.
A boddhisatva deals with questions that arise out of the collective field rather than his own individual field(A boddhisatva is an enlightened one who remains in this realm by the will of Divinity, to lend assistance to mankind and the raising of its overall level of consciousness).

One of the main techniques of the boddhisatva is to simply recontextualize a question so that it becomes meaningless. On the map of consciousness, a question that arises out of Pride is quite meaningless once one looks at it from the perspective of Courage, or Neutrality, or any of the higher levels.
This is a technique that we can practice for ourselves once we have examined the field that the question has arisen out of. We can look at it from the perspectives of (in the context of: ) the higher levels of consciousness, and subsequently practice the surrender/release of those questions as they appear unimportant in this new light we have shone upon them.

-Rob