Questions and Answers

In this section Nukunu will answer questions that he has been asked. The idea is to put one or two questions/answers on the homepage each month to inspire people.

Below is the last question that Nukunu has answered:

Question

If there is nothing real - no substance as everything is appearance, is there any meaning at all?
In other words: Why life? Why living? Why gather like this? Why doing?

August 2010, Question 2 of 2

Nukunu:

Shakespeare once wrote:

“Life.....it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

He is talking about the apparent life. The life we meet when we turn on the TV. But hidden in this seemingly madness is an overwhelming beauty and love and that is the true life. It is all Godliness but that cannot be seen with the six senses (the mind is the sixth)
 
First you see only with one eye (looking with the brain),
then you slowly begin to open to trust and you see with two eyes: the brain and the heart
and finally you realise they are one and the same.

Hidden in this seemingly chaos that the world looks like is a diamond beyond price.

It does not have a meaning in the normal sense using words. Meaning or no meaning are concepts created by man’s mind. It is very difficult for man to understand that one thing is that he invents something called “meaning”, another thing is to expect life to fit into his ideas.

I agree with the Bible when it says that the ways of the Lord are unknowable. Time, space, causality, meaning and so on are the way we perceive the world (appearances), but it is not the whole truth about the world. The world man sees is projected by his own mind (consciousness). Mind has two dimensions that cannot be separated: appearances (manifestations) and emptiness. When I say emptiness I mean “no-thingness.”

This emptiness is the nature of the mind. It can be realised and felt but it cannot be known. It follows logically that, since the mind as appearance (thinking, feeling and perceiving) is made up of a substance that we call “the nature of mind”, that the very nature of mind cannot be understood through thinking. It is like trying to see one’s own eyes - you can see with your eyes but you cannot see your eyes. In the same way the mind cannot see itself.

When we ask the question “does life have any meaning?” there is no definite answer “yes” or “no” to it because life in reality - the nature of mind  - is unknowable.

If you dare to stay and relax in this unknowable, something unbelievable lovely will arise from deep within you and slowly permeate everything. In this fragrance of truth there is no doubt and also no “no-doubt”. It is a reality that has transcended thinking so all your worries, born out of thinking, falls away in one instance.

Back to your question: There is a real unchanging substance beyond appearances and you are that!

Meaning and no meaning are irrelevant to the real truth and that truth cannot be formulated. You can never not be, like it or not. That beingness enters into what we call life with a body. The beingness survives life and death of the body.

Doing or no doing is just an intellectual grouping. Even if you choose to “not-do” that will also be a doing.

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