In Inquiry, Don´t Worry About the Answer at All - 27th October 2017

When the question is asked, saying 'Do you exist?' and the other question, it doesn't even land. And then after some time, the mind comes to do the scanning to answer.

So, don't worry about the answer at all. So if the question is 'Do you exist?', the presumption that it is not landing... because what will happen is that some of these are very primal things. If I say to you, 'Can you stop existing right now?', we don't have to take a position with regards to that. So landing or not landing, sometimes it just lands, sometimes it doesn't. See, for me, it doesn't land or it does—that's what I've been saying recently, that once you ask the question, don't molest the question.

What we do is we start an inquiry, 'Who am I?', and then we molest it with: 'Is it landing? Am I getting it? What am I seeing?' This is a different type of class because our conditioning has become so strong that we have to answer, and we have to answer first, and we have to answer correctly. Then all this can be very frustrating if the answer is not coming. So that's why sometimes when I say these things, it is also so that you can relax a bit.

So if you had the idea that 'I am something' for millions of years, and in ten days or ten months or ten years it doesn't seem clear what the answer is, it's completely fine. But at least that is a rehab from all this 'I am something.' Even if it is that 'I don't know,' that is good enough. At least the mind is not feeling too climbed with something. You look down and 'I don't know who I am,' but with a lot of integrity. I know the teachers would say 'I don't know'—those are the ones who work compared to the ones who are saying...