Questions
Questions
He asked these questions in public, over sixty years. He did not always answer them. Some of them, he said, cannot be answered — only lived with.
Why are you here?
What is it you are actually looking for?
Is the observer different from the observed?
Can the mind be free of its own conditioning?
What would it mean to see clearly — without any motive, without any direction?
Is there a difference between you and your thought?
Can love exist where there is jealousy?
Is what you call love a need — and if so, is it love?
What do you actually want from another person?
Are you afraid of what you might find if you looked at yourself honestly?
What are you afraid of losing?
Have you ever, for a single moment, been free of fear?
Why do you follow?
What would happen if there were no authority — inside or outside?
Can you think, if you are only thinking what you have been taught to think?
Is the known a trap?
Can the mind be quiet — not forced to be quiet, but quiet?
When the mind is very still, what is there?
Is it possible to die — not physically, but to everything of yesterday — each day?
What would remain if there were no memory?
Are you the sum of your memories?
Have you ever looked at a tree without naming it?
What would it mean to look at yourself without any image of yourself?
Is it possible to be completely alone — not lonely, but alone?