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Questions arise on the spiritual search. The most an answer can do is point you to presence. Presence is non-conceptual. It isn’t an idea. It isn’t a conceptual answer. It is the very presence that is alive right now, the presence in which questions and answers arise and fall.

The spiritual search is just mind movement. One question after another arises in this search. If there is an underlying belief that there is some conceptual answer out there that needs to be found in order for Oneness or enlightenment to be revealed, that belief creates the problem. It is fuel for more questions. Conceptual answers do not reveal presence. They appear and disappear in presence. Answers beget more questions. Such is the cycle of seeking.

Allow the questions to arise. Instead of looking for an answer, let the concepts point you to what is non-conceptual—presence. The direct realization of presence reveals that enlightenment is not about getting your questions answered. It is about seeing that they don’t matter anymore.

In recognizing that you are presence, it is seen that only the false self is invested in the game of seeking conceptual answers. The false self needs questions so that it can continue its search into future. As the false self is seen through, the game is over. In that seeing, there is a deep non-conceptual knowing that presence is your true identity. Presence has no questions. It simply is.



-Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (