Unanswerable

Unanswerable:

there is a Zen koan asking us to reveal our original face before we were born, or even before the birth of our parents and grandparents — unanswerable, yet we ask by means of exploration, who are we, truly, before the birth of this existence? It’s important to drop any pure intellectual approach here, abandoning any concepts we bring to this inquiry. Simply asking ourselves the koan, allowing it to work through us and eventually leading to a revelation, that’s the critical point of any self-inquiry or use of a koan. My own approach was offered by Douglas Harding of the Headless Way and it’s directly pointing at the source which allows all experience, concepts and identity to be shown. Show me your original face is the question — and the answer is seen, not told, remembered and experienced at once.

unanswerable by words.

yet deeply known.

and always present too

what’s being asked of us is to show reality and that’s always, only, this very moment, nothing else can ever be pointed to, not described in any true sense, nor offered as a valid experience. We only know right now. Our original face is being shown, ironically, by the absence of our present face, or at least that’s what our own pointing reveals to us, that any attempt to view our own eyes without aid of a mirror, or looking at a photo, will always…