Mindfulness Mondays 57: No More Questions
June 28, 2010 by dr. lam
Upon meeting a zen master at a social function, a psychiatrist asks him, “How do you help people?”
The zen master replies, “I get them where they can’t ask any more questions.”
The point of this short story is not that we should not ask questions in life. Instead it is that we ask so many questions because those questions reflect in us a lack of trust, belief, and calm. We need to know more and more and more, but we are never satisfied. We need answers to our questions, but we don’t wait for the answers because those answers are not enough to make us happy. When we explore whatever opportunities that exist in front of us we are tied down by the what, what ifs, why nots, etc. that we can’t think straight. When we get to a point of calm and peace, the questions magically disappear.
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