Do You Believe In Yourself? Don’t Ask Me

September 7, 2008 · Filed Under Spiritual Health · 7 Comments

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Advice and asking others for answers seems to be the theme of the week for me. I sometimes visit a forum called Our Ultimate Reality. The subjects on this forum get pretty wild and abstract sometimes. This week one discussion has been about the origin of the universe. The discussion got into the void and randomness and order from chaos, etc. As I was reading a reply I said to myself Do I need an answer? Then it went to, why do we humans always need answers? Why do we ask questions? Why do we seek others advice? Is it to satisfy the mind’s need to box and categorize thoughts and concepts? The thread then changed to the subject of why we are constantly asking questions.

In 2003, after devouring any book or channel on spiritual awakening and enlightenment that I could find, I decided that was enough. I didn’t need any more validation that this stuff was real for me. As I have said, the message was always the same, just said in different words. It felt like my questions were answered and I had no need for any more answers.

This was a reply I made to another on the forum who had given me a theory about the origin of the universe.

Thanks for the interesting perspective. The vacuum effect creating energy. Well?

Like you say questions?

You know, I was reading that and I said to myself why do I care about this? What difference can it make to me or my understanding of anything.

It might a fun mental exercise but that’s all it is. A mental game and mental games for me are just that, games. I guess that’s what the human brain loves to do. It’s like any verbal communication or discussion on any concept, we seem to feel the need to satisfying the mind’s need to categorize, label and “make sense” of things.

The human mind loves to have the answers. Is there really answers? Why do we feel the need for them? The mind begs for a time line and a “how to” process to be satisfied, which as the questions get more abstract, the harder it is to do.

Like your story of you, the enlightened child, who dared to ask the tough question of Who made God? and got brushed aside because there was no answer that the priest could give.

We keep asking. I guess we just love the game huh?

Will we get to the point where we quit asking or feeling the need to have the answers?

I say yes.
Seth

This was a response to my post from Darrell, a person who has a perspective that I enjoy. He hit my theme of the week perfectly.

Hello Sethg,

Yes, we reach the point that we say - enough already.

I do love to learn new things though. I revel in the new dimensions of science’s ability to see deeper into our biology and farther into the Universe. I spend many hours reading and watching video’s of all this.

But as for spiritual books and such, I have had my fill. Being brought to the realization that I was spending my life learning how to live it, and thus, not living it at all.

Like the observer - they miss the point of their own life in the observation of others.

A dear friend of mine just recently wrote a book on spirituality, and she was very happy - yet when I read it I was left with the feeling ” how many times can we keep writing the same things? ” I read all this over thirty years ago.

Yes - there comes a time when we just need to get out there and feel it all and not care how - why - or if it is correct or not.

WithIN Love
Darrell

I just watched this video and it fit my theme. Buddha had some interesting things to say about advice and who to believe.

The answers are within us but we lack the trust in our ability to know that they are right for us. We love to give our power away to doctors and lawyers and counselors and spiritual gurus that we believe “know” so much more than us. Then of course we also give up our personal responsibility for the outcome.

It’s our mind’s thirst for answers combined with our lack of confidence in our power to have them already that keeps us asking. Who knows what’s right for us other than us.

How can I give you advice? I haven’t lived your life. I can’t know your feelings. Only you can. You have the answers within. We just have to listen and trust. When we incorporate that trust in our being then the need to ask someone else for the answers.

This was my last reply.

“Living instead of learning” Yes Darrell, I think it is a natural progression when we harmonize the aspects of self, when the mind relinquishes it grip on constantly “needing” to have the answers, that it will bring the end to our incessant questioning and seeking answers outside our selves. Or the need to question at all.

And then the whole concept of need for every part of life just fades away.

Seth

It’s is time for me believe in myself instead of needing advice from others. Time to end the constant seeking for truths and answers and live the ones I already have.

Now it is on to the next theme. “What is a real man?”

Stay tuned …

Another post I read yesterday that added to my “theme of the week.”

It’s from NAB - Oprah Was Wrong