Answers

Truth and Answers are a strange beast. They are very relative to a person's current perception / situation, meaning most answers become a delicate creation at best.

For instance for the question: Is life deterministic or do we have free will?

• I can answer for some: It's both: so leave it alone to instead enjoy your life.
  
  
• For others I might write out an essay describing aspects of the debate.
  
  
• I could craft various different answers proving how each statement is true or false...
  
  
• I could show how the question is immaterial to how one lives life, so the question isn't worth losing sleep over.
  
  
• I might answer with silence... since a person could be depressed and could take the answer in a negative harmful direction. Being stuck in "wonder" isn't a bad place to be. (Many different types of wonder exist.)
  
  
• Since both conditions are true: I often answer the opposite of what a person believes in order to help shake them up and expand their thoughts.
  
  
• Since both conditions are true: I often give the answer the person wants to hear so they can meander onwards so I can be left in peace. Not everyone should be shaken up.
  

So many questions are like this. People desire "satisfying" answers, but answers are rarely easily packaged in neat and simple tidbits. Some people make money packaging simple answers to the masses. Quite a bit of the self help industry works like a spiritual fast food chain. So it goes. It's neither right nor wrong, just supply and demand.

Of course if you eat enough big macs or fast food: it does harm the body. In a similar manner just living on fast spiritual answers leaves a person empty in the long term always looking for "more". Supply and demand is a terrible way to find spiritual peace. But that's my opinion.

Personally the best answer is when I just write a poem.

I prefer poetry as its more fun to write.


Answers

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Some follow in the steps of the wise
Seeing direction in the steps.
Finding an answer towards destination.
A master merely wanders.

Some look to scripture.
Werd!
In the beginning, There was a word...
A sound, a pattern, a statement
Leading to Dogma, Faith, Belief, Rules...
All fulfilling answers.
Each word implicating truth. (Little judgments each!)
A master is speechless.

I have Tao
A way
But never answers to fulfill it with.
It is

Is...

Releasing all answers
to free oneself
to be oneself.

to...

Tao

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4th draft of poem 5/1/2008

peace