would a happy solution look like? Questioning,
questioning, continually questioning.
Inquiry is not so much thinking about answers,
although the questioning will produce a lot of
thoughts that look like answers. It really involves just
listening to the thinking that your questioning evokes,
as if you were sitting by the side of the stream of your
own thoughts, listening to the water flow over and
around the rocks, listening, listening, and watching an
occasional leaf or twig as it is carried along.
Selfing
The true value of a human being is determined
primarily by the measure and sense in which he has
attained liberation from the self.
(Albert Einstein, The World As I See It)
"I," "me," and "mine" are products of our thinking. My
friend Larry Rosenberg, of the Cambridge Insight
Meditation Center, calls it "selfing," that inevitable and
incorrigible tendency to construct out of almost
everything and every situation an "I," a "me," and a