Why People Have Questions

Maybe the question in the headline is meant rhetorically. Maybe it isn’t. It’s perspective.

Maybe you already ask a lot of questions in your life and wonder why so many people are not interested in questions at all.

In this post I want to share, let’s call it a poem, that may inspire you to ask more questions.

Maybe it will also answer your question about why you should ask questions in the first place and where certain answers to certain questions can lead.

At this point, I would also like to point out the dangers of asking questions. If you ask a lot of questions, sooner or later you will get answers that you don’t like or that you don’t want to believe. Then, according to a theory, he is back at the starting point and can decide for the red or blue pill.

For this reason I place here a sentence from the medicine advertisement, which everyone(!) knows.

„For risks and side effects, read the package leaflet and ask your doctor or pharmacist.“

Unfortunately, no doctor or pharmacist will be able to help you if you discover very specific answers to very specific questions.

Now follows the poem:

Du kannst so vieles erst verstehen,
Wenn du dir selbst die Neugier lässt.
Wer Augen schließt um Schönes nur zu sehen,
der wird dem Blinden gleich und vieles ihm entgehen
Von all dem Welt gewordenen Rest.

Gestatte dir, dich hinzuneigen
zu dem, was dich zur Frage drängt.
Das ist uns Menschen seltsam eigen,
Drum möge man uns bitte zeigen,
Wie alles stets zusammenhängt.

Martin Kießling

And?

Curious?

Do you already have a question?

Do you suddenly feel that you have some unanswered questions concerning you and your life?

Then go for it!

On the other hand, I don’t want to deprive you of a Buddhist wisdom. You could also speak of an opposite pole or another perspective.

In Buddhism there is the following wisdom:

The truth about what you are needs no answer, because all questions are created by the egoistic mind. You are not your mind. The truth is not in more answers, but in fewer questions.

Buddhismus

You decide. Questions or no questions.