I’ve noticed this over the years, and it showed up again in a group meeting where someone asked me a question and the answer that came didn’t really answer it, not in the way it was asked.
It's strange when a guide is spoken to as if they are an oracle. Should you be able to answer every question? It wasn't so long ago that perhaps in stricter traditions a question would be answered with a koan (I hope I got that right, lol). Trying to figure out an answer to a question to eventually submit to the truth of what is out of exhaustion of the mind and that is-ness is not the content of the original question.
There is what naturally arises and if the body arises with fear anxiety then that is what it is. If only the nervous system would do as we like... now it's personal again. The chicken crossed the road. Perhaps it was anxious or confused or chased, but it happened and the chicken accepts it.
It's strange when a guide is spoken to as if they are an oracle. Should you be able to answer every question? It wasn't so long ago that perhaps in stricter traditions a question would be answered with a koan (I hope I got that right, lol). Trying to figure out an answer to a question to eventually submit to the truth of what is out of exhaustion of the mind and that is-ness is not the content of the original question.
There is what naturally arises and if the body arises with fear anxiety then that is what it is. If only the nervous system would do as we like... now it's personal again. The chicken crossed the road. Perhaps it was anxious or confused or chased, but it happened and the chicken accepts it.
I love this.... it made me smile... the chicken is the true teacher. Koans it is from here on out! lol