Questions and more Questions about Finding Inner Peace

I received this question the other day:

I have no idea how to go about resolving the constant questions that go through my head! Asking these questions just makes my life miserable as it always leads to no answers over and over again.

I cant see any light at the end of the tunnel all I see is more questions! Is it possible for people like me to achieve inner peace?

Everyone can find inner peace. The path is through acceptance. However, countless paths for finding acceptance exist. Its just that some seekers take a longer path than others.

I have blogged about finding acceptance many times before. So you can check out earlier posts on this topic, or just search upon the term acceptance in this blog to find other entries.

Countless practices, and systems of belief exist to help people find answers. The biggest problem is finding a practice or system that matches to your nature.

For example: In Zen practice you just keep asking questions and then more questions until the mind says enough is enough and you discover how to let go. Of course Zen then takes this a step further and you ask even more questions just to be sure you mind has learned to be empty of questions.

In Taoism you learn everything is relative which means most answers are not worth chasing. So you let go of the questions and skip straight into acceptance.

In fact Taoism takes this a step further to teach many questions don't have a larger answer at all, that in fact the only answer possible is that you yourself are the answer. In other words, a Taoist reaches the point of acceptance where you yourself are the answer for a majority of the questions you face...

So for a Taoist, questions fall into two categories: Outer Truth and Inner Truth. Questions that fall in the zone of Outer truth are questions which could be consider universal in nature. For example : What is Red? Red is a color... pretty clear cut right? Nope.

Since most questions end up being relative:

For instance What is Red? Well depending on how you perceive the world, Red means something different. So to someone who is color blind their RED may not be the same as your RED.

So questions which are dependent on your nature fall into the category of Inner Truth.

Even more confusing: some questions might have different answers depending if you are trying to answer relative to an Outer Truth or Inner Truth as the "What is Red?" question illustrates.

So when considering this: of course a person can get stuck in endless loops chasing questions. As answers are infinite. A Person can spend an entire lifetime chasing answers only to left still chasing after more.

The real problem is many people try to force questions which are strictly Inner Truth in nature as if they were Outer Truth issues.

This is the root reason religions can cause so many problems: trying to force personal answers upon others.

So back to the question about finding inner peace.

Taoism teaches this:

Inner Peace can be discovered when accepting most questions are Inner Truths. To discover Inner Peace is simply a question of accepting yourself as an answer.

Peace