Everyday I ask that question and I never come up with an answer. I'm sure it's a question that has been asked for as long as the word existed (?) but still, there must be a reason to it all. Everything needs a reason, right? Or does it? Are some things just the way they are and that's that? Are things supposed to appear misleading so that we're forced to ask a question? Action seems to be an answer in and of itself. An answer to what? I don't know, but it seems to be an answer. Most often, questions are asked when action is not present. So take action, and there is no room for question.
But wait a second. How can we take the correct course of action without raising the proper questions? Will we question our actions before we make them only to later realize that the correct course of action was to do nothing at all? Had that option even occurred to us at the time of questioning? Or were we too busy figuring out what action to take?
If all that exists is the question, the action, and the result, then we would no doubt fail to make the correct choices 50% of the time. So what prevents that? Our ability to learn from the results of our questions and actions prevents it. But how does learning from the results really help us if we don't even know the true effects of the results until much later? If we have no idea how many different possibilities can arise from the question and action combinations, then how can we make an educated interpretation of their results?
It makes more sense to agree that we really don't know anything and to accept that there is no way to figure everything out, if everything we believe exists really even exists at all... which leads us back to the beginning:
Why?
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm….
But I know the answer and it’s;
Because. 😛
Some questions just don’t need answered, they are because they are and we know this because we have faith.
Simplify, Verify, Rectify. . .
We are conscious, we observe, we question, we act.
We are conscious, we observe, we question.
We are conscious, we observe.
We are conscious.
Who (or what) observes? Ego.
Who (or what) questions? Intellect and mind.
Who (or what) acts? The body (and senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, etc.).
Why are we conscious? This question only arises from the mind due to the prompting of the observer (ego). The observer engages the mind in this question/answer dialog, and the mind in turn employs the senses and the body to ‘act out’ the possible answers. Based on the experiences which result from the actions, more questions arise, and, depending on how observant one really is, and how intelligent, one will either continue to act the same, change the act, or act not at all (which is not really possible, since even inaction is an action).
Why do we ask the question ‘WHY’? Because we observe that we ‘do not know’. Without the observation that we ‘do not know’ there would be no question. Which leads one to assume that there would also be no action. But this assumes that no action can be done without ego, which is just not true. Of course, one who is in their ego (the conscious Self ’embodied’ in ego)will find it very difficult to accept that action can be done without ego. This is especially so because the mind (controlled by ego) has recorded numerous experiences seemingly to the contrary.
So, how to solve the ‘riddle of life’? One needs to find the answer by observing the truth in contradistinction, because really this is just what life really is: the Truth in contradistinction. Why? Because without the contrast between what is Real and what is Unreal, between what IS and what IS NOT, there would be nothing to question, observe, think, or experience. This LIFE is a drama. This life is a play. This Life is a Sport, this life is an expression of Consciousness itself, through the instruments of ego, mind, and body.
As they say. . . “The show must go on.” And so it does.